What is urgent care?
Urgent care describes an immediate need for care due to an illness or injury. At Prestige Clinicians LLC, the team of experienced family medicine and wellness providers offers all-encompassing medical care, including urgent care, chronic disease management, preventive care, and everything else your family needs.
What does urgent care encompass?
Urgent care includes injuries and illnesses that require fast care, but don’t rise to the level of emergencies. Some common reasons to seek urgent care include:
- Colds
- Flu
- Ear pain and infections
- Allergic reactions
- COVID-19
- Sore throat
- Cough
- Sinusitis
- Fever
- Headache
- Rashes
- Constipation or diarrhea
- Insect bites or stings
- Urinary tract infections
- Sports injuries like sprains and strains
- Abrasions, cuts, and other wounds
- Abdominal pain
- Nausea and vomiting
- Conjunctivitis (pink eye)
Situations like heart attack, stroke, traumatic bone fractures, stab wounds, and other severe or life-threatening illnesses or injuries require emergency room care. If you need guidance regarding emergency care versus urgent care, Prestige Clinicians LLC is happy to help you determine what kind of care you need.
What happens when I come in for urgent care?
When you come to Prestige Clinicians LLC for urgent care, the first priority is a rapid and highly skilled assessment of your situation. To verify the problem you’re having, you may need X-rays, lab testing, or specialized tests like COVID-19 testing.
The team can quickly diagnose the problem and prescribe a course of appropriate treatment. Your care may include prescription medication, injections, intravenous (IV) therapy, or in-office remedies like breathing treatments, stitches, splinting, or wound cleaning.
Prestige Clinicians LLC also offers innovative solutions to fight serious illness, including monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID-19 infections.
Along with your immediate treatment, the team usually recommends a follow-up visit in a few days to make sure you’re recovering. They may also recommend other treatments to help you prevent another illness in the future. One example is vaccinations, and all types of vaccinations are available for every age.
At Prestige Clinicians LLC, your family gets the urgent care they need from the same trustworthy medical providers who provide their day-to-day health care. This offers the most customized care possible and prevents confusion that you might experience when going from one medical facility to the other.
For the best in personalized urgent care, call Prestige Clinicians LLC, or book your appointment using the online scheduling link now.
