So this morning, you look on ToTV for advice on helping your wife, who cut herself "the other day." Not even necessarily "yesterday" - I'll go ahead and state - it's not an emergency.

So you can rule out an ER.

There are a lot of Urgent Care facilities within and surrounding The Villages. I suggest you run a google search and base your decision on the one that's closest to you, that's open when you decide to bring her in.

American Urgent Care on 466A in Wildwood is THE BEST!! OR if you need an ER, go to a free standing one either on 44 across from Brownwood OR on 466A next to the Trailwinds shopping. You don't say where you live, so can't help you to the nearest. Either ER is exceptional.

YES----American Urgent Care in Wildwood is the BEST. Dr. Muhammad is wonderful. He came from Tampa and was nominated as one of the best 100 doctors in the United States. No long wait, has great help. Google "American Urgent Care in Wildwood, FL" to get the website to see everything they do.

I am a nurse & ER’s should ONLY be used for LIFE THREATENING events or after hours of urgent care facilities. Our ER has greatly improved since University of Florida Health has bought & staffed it. Urgent care facilities are springing up all over (as are stand alone ER’s.) That all being said, your 1st call should be to your insurance to find out who is in network & what the costs to you will be. Then find the closest to you, as you don’t want to be driving far for “urgent” care. Hope this helps.

Fast
 

Always fast not much of a line and has a Dr or PA there - my go to for everything except where I want history like blood work or regular checkups

601 Gray Ave Wildwood, FL

AMERICAN URGENT CARE & WALK-IN - Updated April 2024 - 26 Reviews - 601 Gray Ave, Wildwood, Florida - Urgent Care - Phone Number - Yelp

I'm told that Medicare won't pay for ER if you've already been to Urgent Care, so be careful which you choose. I thought I had sprained my ankle, but it wasn't getting better after a week. I then went to Urgent Care where they took an x-ray, told me the bone was broken, and that I need to see an orthopedic doc ASAP to determine if I needed surgery. Naturally, it was a 3 week wait, minimum, to get into an ortho. And the ER wouldn't see me since I had already been to Urgent Care. I really felt 'stuck'.

We have used twice MD Now Urgent Care and very good service so far:

805 CR-466 W
Lady Lake, FL 32159

Save the ER visit for life threatening
 

Urgent Cares facilities were established to take the load off of Emergency Rooms. Urgent Cares are for cough, colds, cuts, minor sprains, straind and the like. Emergency Rooms are for life threatening situations - heart attacks, major trauma, strokes, amputations, cardiac arrests…well you get the picture, right. I’m a retired ER RN and can tell you that you will get better and more prompt care for the little inconveniences in your life as listed above.

ERs are for "emergencies" it's in the name. If someone cut themselves "the other day" and writes a post to ask knowing the answer is coming the next day, it hardly qualifies as an emergency.

It's abusing the system.

In February, a friend of mine returned from a cruise and that very day was hit hard by both Covid and Influenza. She stopped at some urgent care place in the area and was tested positive, but the doctor and the nurse practitioner she saw both refused to prescribe Paxlovid for the Covid because they didn’t believe in it. What? I took it a month earlier, and apart from the nasty taste in my mouth for the five days I took it, it was like a miracle drug. I felt much better within four hours. My friend, who is disabled, was sick in bed for a couple weeks, and the chest congestion turned into pneumonia. All told, she was unable to work for three weeks, even though she works from home. All because the doctor believed gossip about Paxlovid.

I used CVS minute clinic last week and was very pleased with convenience of making appt and the care given. When you can’t get into your GP for two weeks it’s nice having a place like this. Less waiting too.

Hard to believe they would refuse paxlovid as they did not believe in it. Both my wife and I had it for covid and it is a marvelous drug.

Yet here you are still alive and typing away. Driving while on your deathbed? Do you care so little for the other people on the road? You might have hurt someone.

I recommend you go to your health insurance web site and see which urgent cares are in your plan as there are so many around here. That would make your billing a lot easier. If they have a triage nurse on call, that's always a good idea first and they will recommend which facility to go to, especially if it might require emergency care.

Are you from Canada or have an Advantage Plan?