| UPPER VALLEY URGENT CARE CENTER |
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What We Do:
Medical Problems Suitable for an Urgent Care Center: Urgent care centers
focus on minor medical problems. They serve a supplementary role for both
the patient and other community physicians. Patients are seen and referred
back to their primary care physicians.
Urgent Care centers typically manage the types of problems that most
people face as an episode a few times a year such as colds, cuts, and
coughs, vomiting and diarrhea, possible bladder infections, simple sprains
and strains and minor fractures of the arms and hands and lower legs, and
dislocations. Other services often include on-the-job injuries/illnesses,
employment, sports, and school physicals, vaccinations, drug screening,
pregnancy testing, HIV testing, with general X-ray capabilities. Laboratory
tests are generally limited to tests used in the urgent care setting. Urgent
care centers generally don't provide ongoing continuous care nor do they
replace the role of a primary physician.
What We Don't Do:
Medical Problems Not Suitable for an Urgent Care Center: Although urgent
care centers are attractive it must be emphasized that they are not suitable
for all medical problems. Rather, they focus on minor medical conditions.
For true emergencies such as chest pain and possible heart attack,
strokes, head injuries, loss of consciousness, severe abdominal pains,
obstetric problems, severe vehicle accidents or other serious matters; your
hospital emergency department is where to go without exception.
Also patients with multiple medical conditions and complexities are usually
better served by going to a hospital emergency department. The urgent
care centers are simply not staffed or equipped to handle these kinds of
medical problems or patients with complex problems.
And, urgent care centers don't typically provide ongoing continuous care
for chronic medical conditions such as pain syndromes including arthritis,
fibromyalgia, or migraine headache syndromes, diabetes, heart disease,
high cholesterol, high blood pressure. A primary physician and/or pain
specialist is still your best choice usually for these conditions. However,
exceptions for even these non-emergent conditions are sometimes made
when the visit can be kept brief for the sake of all other patients who are
waiting to see the provider for rapid care.
What We Do and Don't Do
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