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If you’re experiencing a life-threatening condition like severe blood loss, heart attack, or head trauma, it’s imperative to go to a hospital for emergency care. There, ailments are treated based on their severity and you will receive prompt attention. For non-life-threatening illnesses or injuries, however, you may be better off going to your local urgent care clinic. Find out why below.

What Is Urgent Care?

Urgent care centers provide medical services during times when your physician’s office is closed. Whether it's a weekend or at night, these healthcare facilities operate beyond typical business hours.

Urgent care offers easy access to the medical services you need. You won’t be left waiting for hours as you would in the emergency room for less serious conditions. They improve patient access by speeding up the treatment process. 

What Injuries Are Treated at Urgent urgent careCare?

Urgent care treatment is strictly for non-emergency conditions—those that don't have the possibility of threatening your life or permanently impairing you. This excludes cases of poisoning, loss of consciousness, seizures, chest pain or other heart attack signs, and severe abdominal pain.

Injuries you might treat at urgent care include sprains, whiplash, burns, fractured bones that don't pierce the skin, and cuts or lacerations that aren't excessively bleeding but require stitches. You can also seek urgent care for illnesses like urinary tract infections, allergies, asthma, and flu.


Robertsdale Urgent Care provides residents of Baldwin County, AL, with after-hours medical attention. The clinic is locally owned and operated, run by Robertsdale native Amy Younce, MSN, RN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-BC. She believes in improving access to quality health care to her community and has more than six years of experience in emergency medicine and trauma surgery services. Learn more about the family medical services she and her team provide online. For questions, call (251) 947-3591.

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