Facing a surge in patients, Walnut Creek’s John Muir Health on Friday announced the closing of three urgent care centers in San Ramon, Orinda and Concord.
“In order to provide care in the most safe and effective manner, we are temporarily consolidating our seven Urgent Care Center locations to four as of Friday. This change lets us move clinicians and staff to our four
largest urgent care locations, which allows us to more efficiently and effectively provide care to our community,” a release by the medical group stated.
John Muir Health operates two main hospital centers, located in Concord and Walnut Creek.
The group’s other four urgent care locations, in Berkeley, Pleasanton, Brentwood and Walnut Creek, will remain open. Those sites have separate areas for respiratory and standard health urgent care.
All patients will receive a mask upon entering the respiratory urgent care area.
The group also announced that it is not taking walk-ins and is screening all patients via phone before scheduling any appointments. Patients are asked to call to schedule an appointment.
John Muir is temporarily restricting visitors in outpatient facilities, including urgent care centers. Patients are being advised to plan to have non-essential family or friends wait outside of the building or in the car. Pediatric patients should be accompanied by only one parent or guardian, if possible.
John Muir urgent care center hours are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends.
An urgent care center that doesn’t take walk-ins? Lol.
John Muir urgent care centers have always recommended appointments. I was turned away as a walk in once since I had no appointment.
Also, some urgent care centers do not take America’s most common insurance: Medicaid, with over 72 million subscribers
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html
They’re supposed to provide care, not turn sick people away.
Seriously??
Yes, it happened in 2013 or 2014 at John Muir Urgent Care in Walnut Creek by the hospital. Since then I have always made an appointment online or by phone, which has only happened once or twice.
They will provide care in their emergency room if you don’t have an appointment. You can usualy call up and get a same day appointment at urgent care. It’s “Urgent Care”, not “Emergency”. There is a difference.
Lock downs and military Meals ready to eat is what is in our future. until we get rid of the virus. national guard to keep the looting at bay also. good not to own any brick and mortar if the jungle gets Cray Cray. just a possible case scenario. hopefully won’t get that bad.
I don’t think we need to worry until the de facto currency for barter is ammunition.