[Sadie1313]

Originally Posted by NECHFalcon68

Ok, folks, a dumb question...fortunately I am not one who has had to frequent doctors or hospital emergency rooms...and just moved to TV. URGENT CARE facilities are a relatively new concept for me. Are these pseudo-emergency rooms to take the load off hospitals, or are they something that arose due to politics/healthcare legislation? When would one use an Urgent Care facility? A non-life threatening injury? Do you need to be pre-registered in some way, or is it walk in?

You go there when your doc isn't available, and you don't think it's life threatening. I went to Urgent Care in LSL this past Saturday. Within 15 minutes, they were asking me which hospital I chose to go to. They already had the ambulance on the way. I actually was ****ed, as my husband was with me, and could have driven me. The doctor said it could be life threatening, as I have a bad heart, and he didn't like what he saw. I was in the hospital for 3 days, and I'm okay now. I have to say that the service was A-1, in both the LSL Urgent Care, and at the Villages Hospital. Hope I never see the hospital again, LOL, but would definitely go to that Urgent Care again if I had to. Trish