What is Urgency Care?

What is Urgency Care?

By KATIE ANDERSON, MD

Urgency Care provides medical care for most illnesses, injuries and conditions 7 days a week with evening and weekend hours. A highly trained team of physicians, practitioners and nurses are here to care for you.

Mankato Clinic Urgency Care in our Main Street location has been remodeled to improve patient care, comfort and services.

We offer walk-in care with shorter wait times and lower costs than hospital emergency rooms. Urgency care facilities also free up emergency room resources for people who truly need critical care.

We have added large exam rooms with overhead lights for procedures, stretcher beds and bedside cardiac monitoring. For optimal patient safety, a nurses station is centered in the department and highly visible to the triage and exam rooms.

With bedside cardiac monitoring, we can treat patients with chest pain who have no history of heart issues. The cardiac monitor in the nurses station alerts us to any abnormal rhythms, heart and breathing rates, blood pressure and oxygen levels so we can immediately check on patients.

We’re still here for coughs, illness, sore throats, infections, minor injuries, sprains and stitches. We offer full lab services with testing for strep, COVID and other infections. Our phlebotomists come right to your exam room to do the tests! Our families love this. Nursing staff will call you with results and necessary instructions.

Urgency Care also offers access to full diagnostic imaging services to include x-rays, CT scans, MRI imaging and ultrasounds. Your Urgency Care provider may recommend a follow-up visit with your primary care or specialty provider.

Dr. Katie Anderson uses the movable computer station in one of the larger exam rooms with bedside cardiac monitoring.

WHEN TO VISIT

Urgency Care Emergency Room

• Abdominal pain

• Chest pain with no history of heart issues

• Cuts and abrasions

• Earaches

• Fevers, colds, coughs and sore throats

• Headaches

• Insect and animal bites

• Minor allergic reactions

• Minor head injuries

• Rashes

• Sinus problems

• Sprains, strains and fractures

• Sports injuries

• STDs

• Urinary tract infections

• Vomiting and diarrhea

During your visit, a provider may determine you need a higher level of care and make arrangements to get you to the Emergency Room.

WHEN TO VISIT

Emergency Room

If it is a life-threatening emergency, call 911 or go directly to the nearest Emergency Room.

• Chest pain with a history of heart issues, heart attack, difficulty breathing

• Constant vomiting

• Major head trauma or loss of consciousness

• Severe bleeding or abdominal pain

• Stroke or numbness on one side

• Sudden severe headaches

Urgency Care Hours

Monday-Friday 8 am - 8 pm

Saturday 8 am - 5 pm

Sunday 11 am - 5 pm

Same-day appointments may be available by calling.

To learn more, visit mankatoclinic.com/urgent-care