Urgent Care — Here for You When You Need Us

The Urgent Care Department at Longmont Clinic provides patients with the opportunity to be evaluated by a doctor or medical provider when their regular doctor is unavailable. There are no appointments necessary. Patients are able to walk in, as they would the emergency room at a local hospital. It is often a lower cost alternative than a visit to a hospital emergency department, and usually there is much less time spent in the waiting room. The Urgent Care Department accepts most all forms of insurance and you need not be a patient of another Longmont Clinic doctor to use the services.

In short, a patient should consider being seen in Urgent Care when he or she has a non-life-threatening medical problem, which needs evaluation and treatment sooner than can be provided in a scheduled appointment with the patient’s regular physician. Patients do not need a doctor’s referral to be seen in Urgent Care, unless your health insurance provider requires it. Although, if you are unsure whether you need to be seen in Urgent Care, we recommend that you contact your primary physician (or the physician on call for him or her), and they can provide guidance with regard to the need for urgent evaluation. Many physicians will leave openings in their schedules to schedule same-day appointments for patients with immediate medical needs.

Some of the common conditions prompting visits to Urgent Care include:

• Traumatic injuries such as fractures, sprains, lacerations, burns, eye injuries, and concussions
• Respiratory infections such as sinusitis, ear infections, bronchitis and pneumonia, sore throat, flu, and also asthma symptoms
• Gastrointestinal complaints such as vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain
• Dermatologic problems such as rash, itching, skin infections and insect bites or stings
• Acute allergic symptoms
• Non-specific symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, headache, and fever

The Urgent Care Department does not have an ambulance bay; in general, if a patient is ill enough to require immediate ambulance transport, he or she should go to a hospital emergency room. We also recommend Emergency Department evaluation for patients who are unconscious, or have a potentially life-threatening problem such as being acutely suicidal, or having symptoms strongly suggesting heart attack or stroke. We recommend scheduling an appointment with a primary physician for non-urgent needs such as general physical exams, screenings tests (e.g. cholesterol testing), medication refills or routine immunizations.

The Urgent Care providers at Longmont Clinic also evaluate and manage patients with workers' compensation injuries. If you are injured at work, check with your employer if Longmont Clinic is among the sites covered by their workers' compensation insurance.

Longmont Clinic Urgent Care is open 7 days a week, and appointments are not necessary: 

• 8 AM - 8:00 PM Monday to Friday
  
• 8 AM - 6 PM on Saturdays 
  
• 10 AM - 6 PM on Sundays