Should I choose an Urgent Care Facility or an Emergency Room?
CALL 911 NOW if you feel short of breath or are bleeding uncontrollably!
Tulsa Urgent Care Clinics – What are they?
Urgent care facilities, such as Urgent Care of Green Country, are typically stand-alone clinics that DO NOT carry the expensive costs of an emergency room. A visit to an urgent care facility for stitches, for example, will generally be significantly less costly to the patient than the same visit to the emergency room. Urgent care (or immediate care) facilities assist patients with many conditions commonly treated by primary care physicians. If patients cannot get into their own doctor or do not have a primary care physician relationship, Urgent Care offers a timely alternative to fill this patient’s need.
**We recommend that anyone with ongoing health issues that require regular follow-up appointments establish a relationship with a primary care doctor.
Location, Location, Location – Urgent Care Oklahoma
Many patients visit Urgent Care clinics in Tulsa or other areas when they are traveling or temporarily living away from their hometown medical practice. Furthermore, primary care physicians are often booked for weeks or months in advance, making appointment scheduling for pressing health issues difficult. Urgent Care facilities require no appointment and patients are treated on a walk-in basis. If the illness or injury is NOT an emergency, choosing an Urgent Care facility will typically save patients time and money.
Urgent Care of Green Country – What do we treat?
For examples of conditions that we commonly evaluate in our Urgent Care of Green Country clinics, please refer to Patient Services and Employer Services. We also provide pediatric urgent care in Tulsa and surrounding cities.
Where are we located?
With urgent care clinics in Bixby, Owasso, Claremore and Pryor OK, we conveniently accommodate patients from all areas in and surround Tulsa, Oklahoma. This also includes providing immediate care in Jenks, Broken Arrow and other nearby Oklahoma cities.
**PLEASE NOTE that any accident or illness that may lead to loss of life or limb, serious medical complication or permanent disability should be evaluated in the emergency department of a local hospital.
When is it necessary to go to the ER?
EMERGENCY ROOM departments are located within hospitals and are prepared to care for patients suffering true emergencies such as heart attacks, serious motor vehicle accidents, suicide attempts and other life threatening conditions. Located within a hospital, these centers are able to provide access to physicians with specialized training or board certification in emergency medicine. Often in towns where there is no urgent care center, patients with less serious conditions go to the emergency room for care. Although the emergency room staff can see these patients, the sicker patients always take priority, which means that those with minor injuries or illnesses may wait a long time to be seen. Also, because emergency rooms are backed-up by operating theaters, critical care units, and other expensive hospital facilities, they charge facility fees on their bills which can add hundreds of dollars to an emergency room visit.
Examples of conditions that should be evaluated in the emergency room include:
- Chest pain
- Severe difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
- Sudden dizziness, loss of coordination or balance
- Numbness or weakness in the face, arm or leg
- Difficulty speaking
- Sudden blurred vision
- Loss of consciousness
- Severe abdominal pain
- Sudden, severe headache
- Seizures
- Coughing up or vomiting blood
- Severe burns
- Deep cuts or bleeding that won’t stop
- Fractures with bone showing
- Overdoses