Is It Better to Go to Urgent Care or ER?

Urgent care and the emergency room offer similar treatments; however, emergency rooms focus on life-threatening or limb-threatening medical emergencies first before dealing with other patients. While urgent care is available to help with any medical issues that are not limb or life-threatening.

Emergency rooms offer walk-in service only and can become very backed up causing long wait times due to the severity of each individual that comes in for their medical needs. Urgent care not only offers walk-in service, but they also have appointment-based service to help when patients need medical attention fast.

Urgent care offers great benefits including extended hours, additional services like digital x-rays, laboratory clinic, physicals, and testing for UTIs or STDs, and other services and treatments you could go to primary care or family care clinics, but urgent care offers faster service.

The difference between urgent care and emergency care is emergency care offers their hospital emergency rooms to the public and they are mainly meant to address the most life-threatening and limb-threatening medical issues that walk in their doors. While urgent care is also open to the general public and available to address urgent related, same-day issues, however, they treat issues that are not life-threatening or limb-threatening.

UCare Urgent Care and Walk-In Clinic offers the ability for a one-stop medical care clinic that includes treating:

Illnesses

• COVID-19 Testing
• Allergies
• Asthma
• Kidney Infection
• Staph Infections and more

Injuries

• Broken bones
• Digital X-rays
• Strains, sprains and fractures
• Lacerations
• Burns
• Bug bites and more

Prevention

• STD + UTI Testing
• Lab Work
• Drug Testing
• DOT Physicals
• Sport and School physicals and more

Accidents or a need for immediate medical attention can interrupt your day without notice. Thanks to the popularity of urgent care and how quickly they are expanding across the USA, urgent care can help the emergency rooms by taking on any non-emergency patients into their clinics to help with any medical care. The many reasons you can visit urgent care for non-emergency medical attention and treatment can be:

• Animal bites
• Broken bones
• Cough, colds, or flu symptoms
• Cuts that may require stitches
• Earaches or sinus pain
• Minor burns or rashes
• Minor headaches or breathing issues like asthma
• Sport or school physicals
• UTI or STD testing
• Vomiting, diarrhea, or stomach pains

On top of all the incredible services and treatments urgent care offer, UCare Urgent Care and Walk-In Clinic also offers great features like digital X-rays, Laboratory Clinic, and much more all on-site!

However, urgent care may not be the clinic for your medical illness or injury needs; emergency rooms offer their services for life-threatening and limb-threatening treatment including:

• Heart attacks
• Stroke
• Severe trauma to the body or head injuries
• Severe bleeding or bleeding that continues
• Loss of consciousness

UCare Urgent Care and Walk-In Clinic offers convenient and quick walk-in or appointment-based services with little wait times, affordable care, and great access to a multitude of medical services for non-emergency medical needs. A few of the major benefits of UCare Urgent Care and Walk-In Clinic:

• Convenient, available hours that are extended past your primary or family doctors
• UCare Urgent Care and Walk-In Clinic saves you money with more affordable service
• Offers fast, efficient, and convenient urgent care medical services
• No appointments necessary! Walk-ins Welcome!
• Urgent care has the ability to treat minor to serious injuries and illnesses that are not limb or life-threatening

If you or a family member is looking for urgent medical attention, visit UCare Urgent Care and Walk-In Clinic today! Call us today to book an appointment, or visit our clinic conveniently located at Horizon City, TX and on North Zaragoza Rd. in El Paso TX, and Lee Trevino Dr. in El Paso TX. We serve patients from Horizon City TX, El Paso TX, Lee Trevino Drive TX, Fort Bliss TX, Mission Valley TX, Resler Canyon TX, Alfalfa TX, Montwood TX, and BEYOND.