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What Are the Benefits of Choosing a Walk-In Clinic?

You’ve been feeling under the weather for days now. You’ve finally decided to see a family care provider, but it’s the weekend or already past business hours. You may be tempted to just sleep it off, but why wait any longer when you can get seen right away?

Your best bet is to visit us at Advanced Medical. We accommodate walk-in patients as part of our commitment to providing comprehensive and convenient healthcare services to the residents of Wellington, Royal Palm Beach, and the surrounding areas.

So, before you go to a regular walk-in clinic or make that long and expensive trip to the emergency room, check out the benefits of choosing to visit us instead for your non-emergency medical needs.

We Are Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Walk-In Clinic

What sets us apart from those walk-in clinics you typically see in grocery stores, pharmacies, and “big box” stores is that we are run by highly qualified medical professionals—a board-certified internist and a board-certified family nurse practitioner. This means that you are in very good hands.

We combine our expertise with advanced evidence-based medical care to deliver the best patient experience and treatment outcomes. Compassion, empathy, and respect are the cornerstones of our practice.

You Are a Top Priority

Emergency rooms can get overcrowded. As such, patients with non-emergency cases often don’t receive prompt care and have to sit in the waiting area for hours on end.

At Advanced Medical, you are a top priority, and we don’t just treat you like a number—we treat you like a family. We will provide you with the personalized care that you need, when you need it.

We Provide High-Quality and Affordable Services in Wellington, FL

Since we are essentially a primary care practice, you can trust us to help you with the vast variety of medical conditions, both acute and chronic.

We see patients of all ages, and we offer a comprehensive range of preventive and urgent care services—all at friendly rates.

These include:

o   Allergies and asthma

o   Auto accident and workplace injuries

o   Chronic conditions (e.g., cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and type 1 and type 2 diabetes)

o   DOT physicals

o   Physicals for sports, school, camp, employment, and insurance

o   Respiratory tract infections (e.g., common cold, the flu, tonsilitis, etc.)

o   Weight management

o   Women’s healthcare services (e.g., gynecologic exams, Pap smears, and preventive medicine)

Are you sick today? Be seen today at either our Palm Beach or Wellington Walk-in Clinic! If you prefer to set a same-day appointment, you can either call us at (561) 434-1935, or you may fill out our appointment request form.

Should You Visit a Walk-In Clinic?

A walk-in clinic is a healthcare facility where you can receive medical care without an appointment. These medical offices are also often called urgent care centers.

Think of a walk-in clinic as an ultra-convenient family medicine provider’s office. It operates as if you could walk right into your family medicine provider’s office without making an appointment beforehand.

Let’s talk about why you would want to visit a walk-in clinic, the differences between these facilities and emergency rooms (ERs), and where you can go in the Wellington and Royal Palm Beach area for convenient, personalized healthcare.

What Is a Walk-In Clinic?

Walk-in clinics have family medicine providers and nurses who can efficiently diagnose and treat non-life-threatening injuries and illnesses, such as a cold, flu, fever, sore throat, sudden pain, infections, and cuts. These healthcare professionals can also administer vaccinations and perform physicals for school, sports, and employment. If you’re going away on a trip and need to get specially vaccinated per your destination (which has been the case long before COVID-19), walk-in clinics also provide this service.

These urgent care clinics can treat patients who have minor allergic reactions, asthma, bronchitis, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. An urgent care center can also provide wellness checks, such as your annual checkup. This type of medical office is a great option for when your primary care family medicine provider is not available.

Is a Walk-In Clinic the Same as an Emergency Room?

If you have a potentially life-threatening issue – such as a severe allergic reaction that is affecting your breathing or a severe traumatic injury, such as a blow to the head or being injured in a car accident – go to an emergency room at a hospital. Do not go to an urgent care or walk-in clinic. Hospitals are equipped with ventilators and other high-level medical technology that is necessary to handle trauma.

An emergency room tends to have a much, much longer wait time than does a walk-in clinic if you have a non-life-threatening health issue. That is because a hospital’s emergency room will conduct triage, which is prioritizing the severity of injuries and illnesses – and the more severe cases will be seen first. Low-level illnesses or injuries may take a long time to be seen by a family medicine provider.

What Is the Difference Between a Walk-In Clinic and an Urgent Care Clinic?

You may be surprised to learn that there is actually no real difference between an urgent care center and a walk-in clinic. People use these terms interchangeably, per their own comfort level, but they both mean that you can go to the clinic or the medical office without an appointment.

Walk-In Clinic in Wellington and Royal Palm Beach, Florida

It is ideal to have a primary care provider whose office also accepts walk-ins for sudden minor emergencies, such as a bad cut or a cold. Here at the Advanced Medical Clinic, we offer primary care and urgent care services to patients of all ages, and we accept walk-ins without an appointment.

Our staff can quickly assess your medical issue and provide treatment, thereby avoiding unnecessary visits to the emergency room. If you have any questions about our urgent care services or would like to schedule an appointment, contact our friendly staff today at the Advanced Medical Clinic by calling us at (561) 434-1935 or by filling out our online request form now. We look forward to being your healthcare partner!