Carroll Montana

Welcome to the Wellness Center

Carroll's Wellness Center offers quality health care to Carroll students (Mostly free of charge!) You can get your flu symptoms checked out get your immunizations completed or meet with a counselor to discuss problems you may be having as you transition from home to college. Please don't wait until you are feeling overwhelmed or exhausted and sick before you make plans to visit us. The sooner you address your health issues, the easier it is to get your life back on track!

The Wellness Center is open from 9am to noon and 1 pm until 4pm Monday through Friday. However, it is closed for school holidays. To find the Wellness Center, simply travel to the ground floor of Guadalupe Hall.

For appointments call (406) 447-5441

Personal Extensions:

Kathleen Trudnowski, Nurse (406) 447-5439

Mike Franklin, Counselor (406) 447-5559

Laurie Gaffney (406) 447-4536

Erin Harris or Carol Anderson, Office Managers (406) 447-5441

FAX (406) 447-4553

Weekly Clinic with Nurse Practitioner
Our Nurse Practitioner, Denise Smigaj, FNP, takes appointments every Tuesday afternoon (1:30-6 PM) to see students who may need further evaluations or prescriptions. Please call for an appointment, as her time tends to fill up fast. Thanks!

Confidentiality
Visits to the Wellness Center counseling staff are confidential. This means that communication between counselor and client is privileged and safe-guarded, i.e., information is not released to anyone (parents, employers, or authorities) without your written permission, per the legal standards of the State of Montana concerning Privileged Communication (37-23-301) and the ethical code of the American Counseling Association.

Upcoming Events

Relaxation Hour Is Here!

Need a way to unwind and de-stress? Come join us for some meditation and breathing exercises lead by Laurie Gaffney in her new Relaxation Hour in the Wellness Center's Chill Out Room  Thursdays 1-2pm. We'll see ya there!

Healthy Eating Tips of the Month:

1) Eat from the rainbow- try and eat fruits and vegetables of many different colors, not just your favorite in order to get all the vitamins and minerals your body needs.

2) Stay hydrated! You should shoot to drink half your body weight in ounces of water EVERY day. That may sound like a lot, but that's true hydration is. Staying hydrated is super important to all the functions of your body since we are made up of around 60% water.

3) Stay away from refined white foods such as, white flour, white rice and white pasta. These are overly processed and hardly resemble the original food which means they are pumped full of chemicals ("enriched") to put vitamins back in that they killed through over processing. Instead make at least half of your carbs each day whole grains. Look at the ingredients list and it should say Whole NOT Enriched flour. Whole grains give you the fiber you need to keep food moving through your digestive track.