About Downtown Urgent Care
Posted by Sonny Saggar on Sat, Dec 03, 2011 @ 05:18 PM
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Downtown Urgent Care has developed a strong following since it opened in March 2009 because of its high quality medical care and myriad of specialists. The clinic serves downtown residents, working professionals and visitors to the area. It accepts most forms of payment and prides itself on treating its patients like family.
At Downtown Urgent Care, patients are met by friendly, experienced staff and attended to in a professional, timely manner. You do not need an appointment to receive treatment at the executive-grade facility, which boasts "being a nicer experience than the uptown west county suburban practice", conveniently located at 916 Olive Street and is easily accessible for most businesses and residences in the downtown and the surroundong area. This independent clinic offers less expensive options to companies looking for medical services for employees, including worker’s compensation care, flu shots, employee physicals and more. 
Downtown Urgent Care is open seven days per week and available for most emergency/urgent medical procedures; board-certified physicians and nurse practitioners at the clinic can administer IVs, take x-rays, run EKGs and all acute blood work, suture wounds, set basic fractures, drain abscesses and so much more. For patients with major, life-threatening medical emergencies, doctors at the clinic communicate with hand-picked specialists, many of whom also hold a clinic day in the same building, while transporting patients quickly and efficiently using the 50-foot ambulance bay directly in front, right there on Olive Street.
Specialists at the Downtown Urgent Care facility include Downtown's only internists, Dr. Sonny Saggar and Dr. Rishi Shah, as well as specialists in the gastroenterology, podiatry, hand surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery, chiropractic, cardiology and ear, nose and throat fields, all of whom opened offices to serve the fast-growing population of residents and workers in downtown St. Louis.
While the Downtown Urgent Care clinic is not a grant-assisted clinic, it does organize and hold numerous year-round health fairs (at the request of area employers) that feature specialist speakers, cholesterol panels, prostate and thyroid lab testing, and more. The health fairs are fun and informative, featuring interesting guest speakers and team-building games for office-workers, complete with prizes for the employees who participate. The clinic also offers flu shot clinics on site or at local businesses that book in advance.
Downtown Urgent Care is also dedicated to workers compensation patients, exclusively for its corporate clients. The clinic works to be mindful of the needs of both the client (the employer) as well as the patient (the employee).
Pre-register for your appointment at Downtown Urgent Care online today on our website (but remember you can also 'just walk-in' seven days per week without an appointment). Pre-registering will save you time and can be done from the comfort of your home or office; when you come in, all you'll have to do is verify your information and sign.
The goal of Downtown Urgent Care (as well as Downtown Medical Specialists) is to remain independent of the various big hospital networks, keeping patients out of the hospital as much as possible, practising common-sense medical care as the top priority, not finding out ways to just make more money, which appears to have unfortunately become the big-box hospital-way of doing things. We are 'going against the grain' of all practices being swallowed up by the big systems. We believe there is still a place for the 'friendly-neighborhood physician' who is not just another hospital-hired-gun.
If you'd like to discuss what the Downtown Urgent Care facility can do for your company, please contact our Office Manager Renita Barnes on 314-210-4807 or email her at renita@dhwstl.com. We look forward to serving you and meeting all your urgent care needs.
916 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 63101 | 314.436.9300 | DowntownUrgentCareSTL.com
623 West 5th Street, Eureka, MO 63025 | 636.549.2100 | EurekaUrgentCare.com
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