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By: ERIN EDGEMON, Business Editor

Posted: Sunday, September 20, 2009 6:43 am

National Urgent Care establishes new clinic | Urgent Care Clinic, Business

Warren Stoffey, a physician's assistant, shows off the digital X-ray machine at the new National Urgent Care Clinic in Murfreesboro.

National Urgent Care Clinics recently established an Urgent Care Clinic on South Rutherford Boulevard across the street from the Wal-Mart Supercenter.

The clinics owned by Rick Harrison, Dr. David Turner and other investors are designed to provide urgent medical care for individuals who don’t need to go to the emergency room but can’t get in to see their primary care physician, Turner said.

“The main plan is to serve each community we go into with convenient medical care,” he said, adding that the clinic is only closed on major holidays.

Urgent Care Clinics are open Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday 1 p.m.-5 p.m.

“It is for acute illnesses, acute injuries,” said Warren Stoffey, a physician’s assistant who works at the Rutherford Boulevard clinic. “We can handle most things an emergency room can handle.”

Turner said the clinic is an attempt to keep many non-emergency patients out of the emergency room. The clinic can treat patients for about one fifth of the price of going to the emergency room.

The clinic is staffed by mid-level practitioners and supervised by Dr. Turner and other physicians.

Turner said there was a need for an urgent care facility near MTSU.

“We felt there was probably an unmet need there on that side of the city,” he said.

Stoffey said the clinic also will serve as a supplement to MTSU’s student health clinic.

“We will deliver the same sort of care that they (students) would receive at the student health clinic,” he said.

The Urgent Care Clinic treats everything from sore throats and severe coughs to lacerations and broken bones.

The clinic has a digital X-ray machine and a complete laboratory. The clinic also has weight management and smoking cessation programs.

Turner said swine flu results are available within 24 hours of testing.

Urgent Care Clinics are being opened where there is a need, he said.

The first opened in Portland in January and another opened in Tullahoma in March.

Turner said there was a need in Portland because its hospital had closed. Tullahoma had a need because there wasn’t another urgent care facility located there.

Another location is expected to open in Smyrna in November.

“Our original goal was 40 in five years across Tennessee,” Turner said. “We will have four or five open by the end of November, and we will keep going from there where we identify the need for the service.”

Erin Edgemon can be reached at 869-0812 and at eedgemon@murfreesboropost.com.

National Urgent Care Clinic
2943 S. Rutherford Blvd.
849-3996

Tagged under Business, Urgent Care Clinic

Member Opinions:

By: HONEST on 9/21/09
I am so glad there is finally a decent Urgent Care on that side of town. Warren is an awesome PA with so much experience and professionalism. I would highly recommend taking your business to this URGENT CARE for excellent care. You will be in great hands.