Dr. Gina Good with Family Health Care Associates has opened a new Urgent Medical Care clinic on Ohler Road in Corbin, in the back of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car building.
The new clinic is meant to serve clients with immediate but relatively simple episodic medical needs — things such as simple suturing, tetanus shots, treatment for poison ivy or the like. The clinic opened Aug. 3.
“Basically what this is, is a walk-in clinic for sore throats, sprained ankles, if you think you might have a fracture,” said Keith Everitt, RN at the clinic. “And what we’re trying to do here is our visits are more like $75 a visit — whereas if you went to the emergency room for the same thing and they did a few tests, you could be talking $400 to $600.”
That’s not to say Urgent Medical Care is a substitute for the ER, which has on the spot X-rays and can treat “truly critical things.”
“This is for that person who has missed work or is feeling so bad they don’t think they can go back the next day. Or a child who is in daycare that has been told the mom has to come pick it up because the child has a fever, or the chicken pox or something like that,” Everitt said.
The clinic is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but those hours may expand.
“If we are able to fill up these three days, then we will probably look at a second provider to fill in the other days,” Everitt said.
Urgent Medical Care is also ideal for younger people who often don’t have a primary care physician and might need a doctor for an ear infection or other illness.
“With this new flu season coming on, to be able to be treated within 48 hours of symptoms is what is needed,” Everitt said. “Well, if it takes you three days to get into your doctor, it’s a little late to start the Tamiflu because it’s really not going to help you.”
Everitt said he is also committed to working with his clients — with or without health insurance — to develop a prescription treatment plan that works for them.
“It doesn’t do a provider any good to write the best medicine that a person can’t buy,” Everitt said, “and that’s where I like to talk to people, and I have to put in my notes that we’re doing the second best thing because they can’t afford it... Medical legal, you’re supposed to do the best thing. Well, doing the best thing that doesn’t get done is not doing the best thing. So you have to do the second-best thing sometimes. That’s just becoming a reality.”
For more information on the clinic, call Urgent Medical Care at 606-526-8011.
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Shown from left are Keith Everitt, Tiffany Mathews, Elizabeth Frederick and Dr. Gina Good with Urgent Medical Clinic.
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