The spring season is a great time to take care of your health, get more active, and address pesky allergies. Seasonal urgent care services are important to ensure that you can get the care you need right away for a multitude of non-emergency medical services.

Patients may not realize that an urgent care center or a local walk-in clinic is able to help patients get the care they need without a long or expensive hospital visit. Accidents and illnesses pop up throughout the spring season and patients need a medical provider that offers same-day treatment.

Here is a full breakdown of the many benefits of urgent care for patients during the spring season:

Walk-in clinic access does not require an appointment

For any sudden injuries, ailments, or employer health services, a patient can simply go into an urgent care center’s walk-in clinic for immediate service for any ailment that isn't a medical emergency.

Medical conditions like sprains, cough, congestion, allergies, or preventive and primary care are all available at our walk-in clinic, along with a staff of highly qualified medical providers. This means that you don’t’ have to wait hours just to be seen for simple medical services.

In addition, our urgent care center offers an alternative to emergency room services for x-rays, lab testing, STD testing, and DOT physical exams: all of which are available at an urgent care center!

Seasonal allergies can be quickly addressed at an urgent care center

Patients that suffer from seasonal allergies such as dander and pollen may also visit an urgent care center to get symptom relief.

As mentioned above, urgent care centers are equipped with walk-in clinic access so that patients can be seen by a provider quickly. And allergy treatment is just one of the fast, same-day services available by an urgent care center’s walk-in clinic.

Patients can get relief from allergy triggers, identify the cause of sudden triggers, and coordinate follow up care in just one visit from an urgent care center.

Sudden injuries, like sprains and bruises from outdoor activities, are treatable at an urgent care center

Injuries are more likely to happen as you exercise outdoors and enjoy more time outside during the day. Thankfully, patients can visit a local urgent care center to get started.

Sprains, bruises, broken bones, cuts, and minor non-emergency injuries are all treatable at an urgent care center. Patients can avoid the wait of the emergency room and simply get minor injuries taken care of at an urgent care.

And if you need to need to suddenly get treatment this spring season for any of the above situations, or something else, make sure to visit AFC Urgent Care East Hanover for same-day treatment!