Should You Go to the Emergency Room or Urgent Care?

If you are experiencing an illness or injury that is serious, but not considered a medical emergency, consider Eastside Urgent Care today to receive top-rated medical care. Our professional and caring staff offers faster and more affordable medical care services than if you were to visit an emergency room for the same issues.

Urgent cares are available to provide many of the same basic necessary medical services as your primary care clinics or family doctor’s office, but with extended hours and additional services not found at your primary care doctor’s clinic.

Emergency rooms are available for all life-threatening and limb-threatening medical emergencies and take those on before taking on any other medical issues that walk in their doors.

Eastside Urgent Care offers the ability for a one-stop medical clinic for all of your urgent care medical needs including DOT physicals, STD Testing, lab Tests, digital X-rays and so much more!

Eastside Urgent Care offers affordable medical treatment for our urgent care services, as well we take most insurances. We are able to treat any non-emergency medical issues including but not limited to:

• Illness
– COVID-19 Testing
– Bladder Infections
– Cold Sores
– Kidney Infection
– Staph Infections and more

• Injury
– Back Pain
– Digital X-rays
– Lacerations
– Work Comp Injuries
– Puncture Wounds and more

• Prevention
– Laboratory Testing
– Employment Drug Testing
– Sport and School Physicals
– Confidential STD Testing and more

Urgent cares are some of the most popular and ever-expanding medical clinics in the USA; emergency rooms are able to help more and more patients faster with medical emergencies than ever before thanks to urgent cares taking on non-emergency issues. A few things to keep in mind when trying to figure out whether to visit walk-in urgent care like Eastside Urgent Care or an emergency room:

1. The severity of the health issue

At the hospital’s emergency rooms, they focus on treating patients with life-threatening or limb-threatening health conditions first for anyone of any age before treating patients with less severe issues. Emergency rooms are the better option if you require immediate emergency medical attention.

Urgent cares are the middle ground and help to alleviate the demand on primary care doctor clinics and taking non-emergency patients from emergency rooms for minor illness or injuries as well as other services like lab tests, x-rays, and much more.

2. Hours and staff

Hospital emergency rooms are staffed with the likes of physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses trained in the delivery and the utmost professional emergency care to their patients. Emergency rooms have quick access to advanced specialties for emergency issues like cardiology, neurology, and orthopedics.

However, urgent care clinics like Eastside Urgent Care are staffed with the same physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses with the same training, with a caring and nurturing attitude to help you feel the most comfortable during your visit. Our urgent care clinics have the ability to get lab tests, x-rays, and physicals all done within a matter of minutes to an hour all available in the same clinic, offering you less wait time to get several services done. Urgent cares have more set hours, but they are extended compared to your primary or family care doctor clinics. Finally, urgent cares offer more affordable care in comparison to emergency rooms.

3. Treatable conditions at each

Eastside Urgent Care:

• Bronchitis
• Cuts and Minor Burns
• Diarrhea and Vomiting
• Ear Pain or Ear issues
• Skin conditions
• Sprains, Broken Bones, or Joint Pain
• Upper Respiratory Infections
• UTI/STD Testing and Treatment
• Back, Neck, and Body/Muscle Pain; and much more

Emergency Department:

• Chest pain or pressure
• Compound fracture
• Head injuries
• Pneumonia
• Seizures
• Severe Abdominal pain
• Shortness of breath
• Sudden, severe headache or paralysis and weakness
• Uncontrollable bleeding

Remember to always call 9-1-1 and do not take yourself into the hospital if you or someone else is experiencing any difficulty with breathing, shortness of breath, life-threatening or limb-threatening situations, or signs of a stroke or heart attack.

Eastside Urgent Care offers quick, reliable walk-in or appointment service with little to no wait times, affordable care, and access to a wide variety of medical services for non-emergency health issues. Walk-in or contact to schedule a same-day appointment to avoid wait time. Visit us at 872 Ohio Pike Cincinnati, OH 45245. We serve patients from Cincinnati OH, Covedale OH, Delhi OH, St Bernard OH, Wilders KY, and Elmwood Place OH.