[Indianagirl]

Best Urgent Care places in villages?

[John_W]

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Originally Posted by John_W

It's about 25 miles from Fenney in the south end to Mulberry in the north end, so when you say urgent care, you probably don't want to drive more than five miles. What area are you looking?

In the area south of 466A we have two that have opened in the past year. Ocala Health opened in Trailwinds Village on 466A, next to Burger King, Wendys, Taco Bell, Aldi's, Publix, ABC Liquor and Publix. The facility is 11,600 SF with 11 beds and staffed with 30 fulltime professionals.



Directly across from Brownwood and the cow statues on the corner of SR 44 and Meggison Rd is the new University of Florida Urgent Care, with 25,000 SF and 16 beds.



Someone who lives north of 466 can probably speak better about the ones in the Lake Sumter, Lady Lake and Summerfield areas.

The one on 44 and Megisson is an emergency room, there is an urgent care a couple hundred yards west of the emergency room also on 44, I think it's called 44 Urgent Care.

[John_W]

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Originally Posted by John_W

So does the UF ER across from Brownwood going to turn you away with a broken arm? I don't quite catch the difference myself other than the price of the bill. If it was me, I'm going to that ER and not the place in the shopping center that's been there for five years and had bad reviews.

Those on the southside below 44, here's your urgent care. 200 yards east is a University of Florida Emergency Room shown above.

You hit the nail on the head, the difference is the cost, especially for those under 65 that do not have Medicare and have high deductible insurance or no insurance at all. Maybe you can afford an emergency room bill but there are many others that cannot. Also by being selfish enough to use a emergency room for something that is not truly an emergency puts others that have a true emergency at risk by having treatment delayed. The urgent care has had some bad reviews like many others as well as many horrible reviews of The Villages Hospital emergency room, but as you stated, it's been there fro 5 years and now with the emergency room almost next door it continues to survive.

[John_W]

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[Carla B]

I wonder why there is a "Florida Heart & Vascular" sign on the 441 Urgent Care building. They are two separate entities.

I hesitate going to an Urgent Care. Many or most have no doctors on staff. One time I went to an Urgent Care on 466 with a sore red wrist. The PA there misdiagnosed the cause, and prescribed a mild pain reliever. Later that evening I ended up in The Villages ER with streaks running up the arm. The triage nurse knew instantly it was cellulitis, a serious skin infection requiring antibiotics.

[John_W]

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[villagetinker]

I cannot give you the BEST urgent care since I have not been to all of them, but the new ER on 466a just west of Buena Vista is excellent, and there are doctors in the building.

[bobeaston]

I wonder why some posts by John_W often show up empty? Does he answer and then delete them?