Urgent Care vs. Emergency Room

We understand the choices that are available to patients these days. Our Urgent Care is designed to provide quality and complete medical services with lower financial costs to you, ie. copays, while affording you faster access to your doctor with minimal wait times.

When to go to an Urgent Care

Our care team treats patients for problems that are acute and urgent but not life threatening:

• Virus and flu
• Vomiting, nausea, and diarrhea
• Gastrointestinal illness
• Mild to moderate dehydration
• Ear, throat and respiratory infections
• Sprains, strains and simple fractures
• Minor burns, cuts, puncture wounds and animal bites
• Minor eye injuries
• Rashes and allergic reactions
• Mild to moderate asthma

When to go to an Emergency Room

If you are having a medical emergency dial 911 immediately! If you think you may be having a heart attack or stroke dial 911 immediately. In these instances time is very important to your health outcome. The sooner you receive medical intervention the better off you are.

• Chest pain, nausea, and shortness of breath
• Severe abdominal pain
• Motor vehicle accidents with spine injury
• Sudden, severe headache
• Loss of consciousness or inability to talk
• Limb numbness, tingling, or clumsiness
• Bleeding/cramping in pregnancy
• Head or neck injury
• Seizures
• Moderate to severe shortness of breath
• Psychiatric disorders
• Overdoses
• Child abuse
• Assault, including sexual assault
• Infants less than 6 weeks of age
• High fever especially in children 8 weeks of age or younger