Medical visits for primary care, urgent care, or specialty care are increasingly important for patients. In fact, most provider organizations are spending time and resources to ensure that patients have the most accessible options for any type of medical option. However, patients may not know exactly which types of services are immediately available in certain organizations.
Urgent care centers, however, provide one of the most accessible options for same-day walk-in medical services. Which is why walk-in urgent care services being one of the fastest growing medical options for patients in the U.S.
Here is a list of the most common walk-in urgent care services that help make sure you don’t have to wait at a hospital or larger provider group to get the care you need:
Walk-In X-Rays are helpful for fast digital imaging of injuries and other ailments
Walk-in x-rays at an urgent care center help patients get fast, high-quality digital x-ray results without a major wait. Patients don’t need to get a speciality referral or jump through several hoops to get to an x-ray machine. They just need to find an urgent care center that has its own x-ray lab and x-ray technician.
X-rays can quickly help diagnose your sudden injuries and even lingering injuries that haven’t gone away after some time. Now patients can simply visit an urgent care center to get the treatment they need and imaging services on the same day as their visit.
Patients can visit urgent care for walk-in STD testing as well
Walk-in STD testing is also a crucial service offered at an urgent care center. Patients don’t have to book an appointment at a satellite clinic and wait for results from a separate lab. Instead, patients can just visit an urgent care center, walk-in, and complete a full STD panel.
STD prevention is a crucial part of maintaining your sexual health and it is important to have an accessible STD lab that fits your schedule. The good news is that urgent care offers walk-in access, on-site labs, and dedicated providers that can perform and return STD test results all on the same day.
DOT physicals and walk-in preventive care are available at an urgent care center.
Walk-in DOT physicals as well as walk-in preventive care like sport and camp physicals can be accessed the same-day as your visit via urgent care.
Patients do not have to wait for a specified referral or physician on site to schedule an appointment. Patients may simply walk-in to an urgent care for a DOT physical if they need to renew or register for a new CDL. Sport physicals and camp physicals for kids are also available, via walk-in clinics, for parents that want to get their kids’ physical needs completed ASAP.
AFC Urgent Care East Hanover provides all of these services: walk-in STD testing, walk-in DOT physicals, and walk-in x-ray imaging for local patients. Simply visit our clinic or call us if you have additional questions!
