Xpress Wellness Pressing Care is ready to open its new pressing care facility on Monday, Feb.22.
It presents entry to pressing take care of non-life-threatening medical circumstances for sufferers of all ages, stated a spokesperson for the ability. Providers provided embody computerized X-rays, lab testing and EKGs, to permit for fast point-of-care testing and speedy analysis.
The brand new walk-in clinic is at 340 S. George Nigh Expressway in McAlester, north of the Greenback Common Retailer, Aaron’s and Tractor Provide within the space.
“Our objective is to supply new healthcare choices and handy, high quality care near house,” Xpress Wellness Founder Dr. Scott Williams stated in a launch. “We’re wanting ahead to bringing our patient-centered care to the McAlester group.”
Medical providers might be provided for adults and kids for circumstances together with the widespread chilly, flu, sprains and strains, cuts and scrapes, allergic reactions infections, physicals and extra.
Xpress Wellness plans to supply employers entry to providers as a pre-employment physicals, Division of Transportation physicals, drug and alcohol testing, remedy for work-related accidents and spirometry, or respiration checks.
An Xpress Wellness spokesman stated most insurance coverage are accepted, with a “aggressive self-pay choice” for uninsured sufferers.
Town of McAlester issued a constructing allow for a 3,600 sq. foot constructing, for $990,000 in whole prices and enhancements, stated McAlester Neighborhood Improvement Director Jayme Clifton.
Hours for each in-person and digital visits are from 8 a.m. till 8 p.m. on Mondays by means of Saturdays, and from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sundays.
Plans name for the ability to open for the primary sufferers at 8 a.m. on Monday.
“All ready rooms are closed because of COVID-19,” Perez stated.
Sufferers could make appointments and wait of their vehicles, she stated. They are going to be contacted when it is their flip to come back inside.
She inspired these planning to go to Xpress Wellness to enroll first on-line on the facility’s web site.
Williams stated Xpress Wellness presents an progressive clinic design, which permits sick sufferers to stay separated from COVID-19 sufferers.
“We have at all times operated with security as certainly one of our 4 Core Ideas,” Williams stated in a launch.
“With onset of this pandemic, we acknowledged in a short time that ensuring these efforts are amplified would make our sufferers and friends really feel safe about coming to our clinic for pressing care wants, like stitches, with out fear about being involved with probably COVID-19 contaminated people,” Williams stated.
“Due to this, we completely redesigned our constructing areas in order that if you enter, you go instantly into an examination room with out having to go by means of the final clinic or nurses’ station the place sick people might have been,” Williams stated. “It is a actually cool idea.”
No grand opening celebration is deliberate presently, because of COVID-19 issues, although there may be the hope to carry one sooner or later.
“On account of COVID-19, all the things might be digital,” stated Alondra Perez, Advertising and marketing and Communications Coordinator for Xpress Wellness. “Hopefully, in a while, we’ll do a reopening.”
Anybody needing extra data can go to the pressing care heart’s web site at www.xpresswellnessurgentcare.com, an organization spokesman stated.
Williams based Xpress Wellness in 2014. It is headquartered in Oklahoma Metropolis, led by Chief Govt Officer Grant Asay.
With the opening of the McAlester facility, Xpress Wellness Pressing Care services at the moment are working at 26 places, together with 20 which are working in Oklahoma.
Contact James Beaty at jbeaty@mcalesternews.com
