Illness Report
If you are too sick to attend class, please fill out the illness report on the day you wish to be excused from class (after 6:00 AM and before the first class).
Emergency and Medical
Emergency Contacts
*Pan European Emergencies: 112
Police: 117
Ambulance: 144
Fire: 118
Pepperdine Public Safety: +1 (310) 506-4441
Château d’Hauteville: +41 21 321 0909
Director, Ezra Plank: +41 76 422 2537
Coordinator of Student Life, Anaïs Perez: +41 79 576 3582
Program Assistant, Rafael Zulian: +41 78 964 0301
VEVEY Urgent Care
For after hours and weekends medical care.
+41 21 566 59 50
Place de la Gare 3, 1800 Vevey
Hours:
Mo - Fr 08h00 - 18h00
Sa - Su 10h00 - 17h00
Program physician
Dr. Kristiana Nesa
+41 21 943 23 23
Route du Village 10, 1807 Blonay
Switzerland
*Please note that in Switzerland, if you fail to appear to a scheduled doctor's appointment, you will be charged.
INSURANCE
Students are provided with two medical insurance policies while they are in Switzerland: 1) a global policy through the insurance provider GeoBlue and 2) a global policy through the insurance provided Allianz. The GeoBlue policy is provided to all international programs students at Pepperdine. The Allianz policy is available only to Pepperdine Switzerland program students in accordance with Swiss legal insurance mandates.
For practical purposes, the GeoBlue policy is used for all counseling-related treatments. The Allianz policy is used for all other medical treatments. For further details on terms of coverage or reimbursements, please email anais.perez@pepperdine.edu.
meDICAL AbsenceS
If you are seriously ill and believe your ability to attend class is impaired, please go see the program assistant (sophie.peeters2@pepperdine.edu) to describe your illness and what classes you might potentially miss. Make sure you contact her before your class or you will be counted as absent.
IP ABSENCE POLICY
All absences, despite the circumstances, totaling more than one hour in a 1 unit class, three hours in a 3 unit class, and four hours in any 4 unit class, automatically lower the final grade by one half of a letter grade (i.e., from an A- to a B+). Each successive absence will in turn lower the grade by an additional one half of a letter grade.
Tardy policy
4 partial misses, regardless of how little the time portion is, count as 1 absence.