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New Urgent Care Facility Now Open in Somers

This week the new Eastern Connecticut Health Network urgent care facility and Somers opened.

The center is located at 95 South Rd. in the Geissler's plaza, and is currently sharing the space that is operated by Dr. Michael Bey. Dr. Robert Carroll, Chair and Medical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine for ECHN, said that in July, Dr. Bey will begin seeing patients at a new location and the urgent care facility will take over the entire space.

The urgent care facility, which will be open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. and on Sunday from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., will provide treatment for non-emergency conditions. Patients are seen on a first-come, first-served basis and appointments are not needed.

Slips and falls, strains, sprains, and broken bones will be treated at the facility. So will back pain, abdominal pain, bruises and cuts requiring stitches, fever, cold, flu, vomiting, diarrhea, or dehydration.

Severe sore throat or cough, mild to moderate asthma, and splinter and foreign body removal will also be things the facility can treat.

Patients will be Able to be seen for things that you don't really need to go to an emergency room for, but that you might not want to - or can't -wait for your primary care physician to see.

Carroll said that the patients will receive the highest quality of care, as the urgent care facilities are staffed with board-certified physicians.

"All patients who present to an ECHN urgent care center will be seen and treated by a board-certified physician and will have access to ECHN's expansive list of services and specialists," he said. "Many other urgent care centers, walk-ins, and retail clinics are more profit driven and opt to staff their centers with physician assistants or nurse practitioners and do not have a physician on the premises. At ECHN, we put our patients ahead of profits and have opted to provide the highest quality of service to them without compromise."

According to Carroll, more than 90 percent of patients who go to one of these facilities are seen within 10 minutes, and most visits are completed less than 45 minutes from the time of arrival - much shorter than most emergency room visits.

Carroll added that the cost is also much less than an emergency room visit.

An added benefit is that all the medical records are linked across ECHN facilities, so if a patient has been seen and ECHN hospital or urgent care facility, the physicians will be able to access the records, which Carroll said is important when making a diagnosis or determining what the right care should be going forward.

The facility can be reached by phone at 855-757-2500 (toll-free) or 860-533-4690.


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