What is "Urgent Care?"

"Urgent Care" generally refers to the rapid treatment of non life threatening conditions in a facility other than a hospital emergency room. Urgent Care also refers to a setting where an appointment is not necessary in order to see a physician.

Examples include the treatment of sudden fevers, sore throats, earaches, and respiratory infections. It also includes urinary tract infections, stomach problems, and minor injuries. Urgent Care includes the treatment of cuts that require stitches, fractures and sprains that require splinting, and injuries that may require X-Rays. Patients with chest pain, shortness of breath, penetrating trauma, and other life threatening conditions should proceed to the emergency room, or call 911.

At Urgent Care, we can provide after hours care to patients who have any primary care physician. We will have a fax of our medical record on your doctor's desk, the morning after you are seen. We encourage our patients to obtain follow-up with their personal physicians.

Urgent Care accepts insurance, Medicare, and the managed Medicaid Programs (Presbyterian, Molina, and Lovelace). We accept cash, check, and credit cards. Our reception staff will be happy to help you with any further questions.

If you do not have a primary physician, we will see you without an appointment, and help you find a doctor, or nurse practitioner, if you wish.