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About Sindecuse Health Center

Western Michigan University's Sindecuse Health Center offers convenient, cost-saving services with an experienced, multidisciplinary staff dedicated to maintaining and improving student health. We provide evaluation and treatment for a variety of illnesses and injuries, preventive health check-ups, periodic health monitoring, and opportunities that enhance individual and community health.

While students are enrolled at WMU our providers can act as a students primary care provider. For employees, retirees, and dependents, we serve their needs for acute care.

AAAHC accreditation

We maintain accreditation under the standards set by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Inc. We strive to provide quality health care for the WMU community and undergo this accreditation process to ensure we continually improve our delivery of quality health care. As it has been for over four decades, accreditation is the highest form of public recognition a health care organization can receive for the quality of care it provides.

History of Sindecuse Health Center

The original nurse-run health center was started in 1927 on east campus and moved to the current building in 1969. On Sept. 11, 1986, Gordon Sindecuse, a local dentist, and his wife Elizabeth offered a substantial gift to Western Michigan University.  At that time, it was the largest unrestricted gift ever received in the history of WMU. The donation resulted in the establishment of the Gordon and Elizabeth Sindecuse Endowment. Thus, the University Health Center became the Sindecuse Health Center.

In the 2010s, the health center became an integrated medical and mental health service incorporating the University's counseling center.

In the 2020s, Sindecuse Health Center served the University throughout the COVID-19 pandemic as one of the earliest sites in Kalamazoo to offer testing as the first diagnostic tests became available. Keeping WMU athletes eligible for competition with frequent testing as mandated by the NCAA, and pivoting quickly to telehealth appointments were hallmarks of this era.