The terms “walk-in clinic” and “urgent care” describe the same kind of healthcare center and provider of urgent care. With this kind of care, patients can be seen on a walk-in basis and receive immediate healthcare for any minor health matter. This means you can go to urgent care for anything from a simple case of the flu to a sports injury, so long as the issue is non-life-threatening. You can also go to urgent care for prescriptions, physical exams, immunizations, and more, and an appointment is never necessary.

You’d go see your primary care physician for a minor and non-urgent health matter, like refilling a prescription, and you’d go to the ER (emergency room) for a major and urgent health matter, like a life-threatening injury. But what about urgent care? You can go to urgent care for any minor but still urgent health matter, such as a minor case of fever. Because primary care, emergency care, and urgent care serve different functions, one isn’t better than the other. In different circumstances, though, it’s better to go to one over another.

It’s definitely necessary to go to the ER for an emergency. Only the ER can handle life-threatening health matters. You might be thinking you could go to the ER for minor but urgent health matters too, but it’s better to go to urgent care for minor and urgent health matters, as they’ll be able to treat you more quickly. If you go to the ER for a minor health matter, you’ll have to wait until patients with serious health situations are treated.

You can go to urgent care for any non-life-threatening health matter. Some examples are:

• Minor sports injuries like simple strains
• Physical exams like sports physicals or even annual physicals
• Other exams like preoperative exams
• STD tests
• X-rays for injuries like fractures
• Stitches or bandages for common injuries
• Occupational medicine services like pre-employment exams
• Common illnesses like colds
• Prescriptions for medications
• Testing for minor infections (if you need to be tested for a viral infection, please call us at our clinic instead of visiting us in person)
• And much more

Here at Bloomfield Urgent Care, we can take care of any of the health matters we mentioned above and others, and you can rely on us whenever you need us. Anyone in your family can come to see us for care, an appointment is never necessary with us, and we’re available to you 7 days a week.

You can get quality care here at Bloomfield Urgent Medical Care. You’ll find our clinic over at 43141 Woodward Ave. Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302, or you can call us. Come see us today, no appointment necessary, if you or someone you love needs our care. We can have you feeling better just as quickly as you come into our clinic! We serve patients from Plymouth MI, Bloomfield Hills MI, Livonia MI, Novi MI, Worden MI, Canton MI, Southfield MI, Troy MI, Farmington Hills MI, and surrounding areas!