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Volume 55, Number 075
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GRMC Urgent Care Center opens in Clear Spings urgent care center is Dr. Brett Earnest who is a primary care physician and he is new to our group and he serves as our medical director for that facility and he just brings a lot of knowledge and foresight to primary care services and is a really good addition to our group," said Montez. Montez says whether a walk-in or appointment, the facility offers a full range of urgent care services. "We offer some in house rapid lab tests as well as x-rays so you have those people (who) drop things on their foot or they have maybe a little fracture or something that they fall and they need to get x-rayed, we can do that," said Montez. Of course like any medical facility during this COVID-19 pandemic, Montez says all necessary precautions are being taken at this time to keep everyone safe. She says the facility is also fully equipped as other primary physicians to screen for the virus.
Photo Courtesy By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera (Clear Springs) -- Skipping over any formal ribbon cutting, Guadalupe Regional Medical Center officials say they are pleased to announce their newly opened urgent care facility north of Seguin. Guadalupe Regional at Clear Springs Urgent Care officially opened its doors to patients two weeks ago. The facility is located in the heart of Clear Springs located off of State Highway 46. Tasha Montez, the CEO of Guadalupe Regional Medical Group, says
the urgent care facility is GRMC's first branch off campus. She says the facility provides care for the entire family. "An urgent care center is a bridge and an available access point for patients. So, we are an extension of primary care and other specialists that we work closely with because the urgent care is obviously meant to bridge the gap between their offices as well as the ER so it's those patients who aren't as emergent that need to go to the ER but maybe their primary care physicians can't get them in that day or they are after hours so that's how we bridge the gap. We also have next door to our
COVID - 19 Updates Here
Susie Bohlmer
"We work very closely with and we follow the same process as our primary care physicians do here in town. For example, we had a patient today who called the urgent care and said I have these symptoms and I think that I need to be seen so the patient came to the urgent care center. We brought the patient back. All of our staff used the appropriate PPE and processes that we've established. We did the preliminary testing. It came out negative for the flu and so that is when our provider then called our COVID physician on call and that discussion was had and it was determined that that patient did need to be tested and so that patient came to the hospital to get tested. So, we are following the same steps and it actually worked out very well. It's a good collaborative relationship that our primary care physician's and urgent care center have with our COVID team of physicians here at the hospital. So, it's a good continuity of care. The processes have been worked out and we can replicate the process," said Montez. See URGENT CARE, page 3
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