Southeastern San Diego Urgent Care Opens for Business – The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint

Southeastern San Diego Urgent Care Opens for Business  The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint

Southeastern San Diego welcomes its first urgent care facility, bringing essential healthcare services closer to home and expanding community access. This week Southeastern San Diegans stopped traveling out of their community to seek urgent care. Be the first to know about breaking news, articles, and updates. Their first urgent care facility went operational Monday, serving patients on a walk-in basis from Monday through Friday 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the first floor of Joe & Vi Jacobs Center. Patients do not need to schedule appointments before accessing the facility. The facility comprises six treatment beds with seven clinical staff including two registered nurses and three medical assistants helping register and discharge patients, and providing triage, diagnostic testing, treatment and patient education.

There are also emergency medicine providers and nurse practitioners who diagnose and care for many kinds of minor illnesses and injuries. Cardiac screening, on-site X-ray and lab testing are some of the services the unit provides. “SESDUC [the acronym for the Southeastern San Diego Urgent Care] is staffed by experienced healthcare providers specializing in acute Emergency care medicine,” representatives of the organization said in a release shared with Voice & Viewpoint on October 7. Your support helps Voice and Viewpoint continue providing trusted reporting for our community. Run by San Ysidro Health, the facility opened two years after