Travel Policy

In Washington and California, the public health directives currently indicate that a 10-day quarantine is required after out-of-state and international travel.

In response to changes in CDC and State guidance, Bastyr has adjusted our policy to require a 10-day quarantine after both out-of-state and international travel (which includes Mexico and Canada). 

Please follow these guidelines, and if you have travel plans, you will not be allowed to enter Bastyr sites until your 10-day quarantine is completed.  You will want to make appropriate arrangements in on-campus/clinic activities to ensure you can reschedule activities, find subs if applicable, schedule make-ups or move activity to remote/online if possible.  Note this change applies to quarantine after travel and non-compliant activities only; a 14-day quarantine is still required for exposure and close contact.  The COVID-19 Decision-Making Flowchart has been updated with this change.

If you have questions, please reach out to your instructors/supervisors.

Summer and Fall 2021 Courses

Summer 2021 - Didactic Programs – mostly online – with some labs/clinical skills courses in-person

Didactic courses for Summer 2021 will be delivered remotely/online, however, some labs and clinical skills courses will be held in-person. Our faculty are continually developing increasingly robust, remote/online curricula. Academic departments can be contacted for more information regarding in-person courses.

Fall 2021 - Didactic Programs – we are moving toward more on-campus, in-person courses

Didactic courses will be delivered in a combination of remote/online-only AND in-person experiences. More and more we will be able to open up courses on campus for the fall. We will  continue to follow state and county public health recommendations and will apply them to our campuses in a manner that protects safety and wellness of our campus communities. As we come closer to the fall quarter we will have specific information regarding the delivery method for each course.

Labs and Clinical Skills Courses – some will be held in-person during Summer 2021, our expectation is that many more will be held in-person in Fall 2021

Certain courses that require in-person activities; e.g., needling, suturing, physical medicine, clinical skills, in-person clinic shifts, and others will be held in a safe, physically-distanced manner.  We are allowed by state officials to provide these labs and clinical skills courses in person due to the fact that Bastyr University trains individuals to take on medical, medically-related, and essential worker positions.

We will be providing details concerning which exact lab/skills courses will be in-person closer to the start of the school quarter.

Clinical Shifts at BCNH and BUC

Bastyr has resumed limited, in-person patient shifts. We are also continuing to conduct telehealth video visits.  If you are scheduled for a clinic shift, plan to be available to attend shifts in-person at the clinic. We will work with students who have needs or circumstances that would make this challenging. 

These are challenging times for everyone associated with Bastyr University, and indeed for our entire world. We intend to conduct courses in an on-campus environment as soon as it is safe as designated by state officials in Washington and California. At this point, we are tentatively planning for many courses to be remote/online for the 2020-21 academic year. This will highly dependent on factors out of our control, such as federal, state, local, regional accreditation bodies, and program/discipline-specific accreditation body guidelines.  At this point, we do believe that we will be able to offer all the classes, labs, and clinic to allow you timely progression towards your degrees.  More information will follow regarding the 2020-21 academic year as soon as we have more details.

Statement of Facts and Values

COVID-19 AANMC Statement of Institutional Facts and Values

Archived Updates

For previous website and email communications regarding Bastyr University's response to COVID-19, please see Archived COVID Updates.