From University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health:
University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health (UM UCH) has partnered with ChoiceOne Urgent Care, LLC to open and operate a network of urgent care centers throughout Harford County.
This alliance offers individuals an integrated and coordinated delivery of health care with an increased access to UM UCH’s robust network of primary and specialty care providers, as well as its broad scope of services. The partnership also presents the community with another option to UM UCH’s Emergency Department. By using ChoiceOne/UM UCH urgent care centers, individuals should experience reduced wait times to see a provider and at a lower cost.
“Partnering with ChoiceOne Urgent Care allows us to better serve the needs of our Harford County community,” said Lyle E. Sheldon, FACHE, president and CEO of University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health. “This joint venture will provide high quality care to those who need urgent attention for a medical issue but not necessarily a visit to the emergency room. Working with ChoiceOne will complement the health care services we provide by caring for people in the right setting, at the right time and at a lower cost, improving access to care close to home and work.”
ChoiceOne/UM UCH plans to open its first two urgent care facilities in Harford County in early 2016. The locations will be announced at a later date. The two organizations will work to develop additional sites within the community.
“UM UCH is the most trusted name for health care in Harford County,” said Dr. Scott Burger, ChoiceOne’s chief medical officer and chief operating officer. “Through this partnership, UM UCH and ChoiceOne are providing seamless access to high-quality health care and services delivered to patients who need continued care.”
ChoiceOne/UM UCH providers offer treatment for non-urgent illnesses and injuries, such as colds, flu, broken bones, headaches, infections and sprains. Individuals can also receive pre-operative exams, sports physicals and occupational health services, e.g., pre-employment physicals, drug testing, workers’ compensation and vaccinations.
The centers are equipped with X-ray and EKG machines, laboratory services and on-site prescription dispensing services. Providers see individuals seven days a week and in the evenings, including holidays. Visitors to a center can walk in without an appointment or set their arrival time online at www.choiceoneuc.com. ChoiceOne accepts most insurance plans and private payment.
UM UCH is ChoiceOne’s second hospital partner in Maryland. It currently operates urgent care centers in Dundalk, Phoenix and Towson in partnership with the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center.
ChoiceOne plans to hire providers, medical assistants and X-ray technicians for all its Harford County locations. For more information, visit www.choiceoneuc.com.
Say it isn’t so! Now Upper Deathapeake can misdiagnose and kill people all over Harford County and not just in Bel Air. God help us all!
Are you the idiot named Savannah that works the front desk at ExpressCare in Festival? Talk about a pathetic organization! I will take Patient First or even this new place over Express are any day of the week!
Bet you get all the girls, don’t you?
No, I do not work at ExpressCare or any other medical facility. But I have lost too many loved ones to the complete and utter horrific so-called “care” given at Upper Deathapeake.
I have been a care-taker of the sick and elderly for many years. Unfortunately, when my mom was sick and at the mercy of those quacks, my dad took the advice of the medical “professionals” instead of listening to his instincts.
I love how every medical place “partners” with some sort of gimmick organization to become to long multiple word name.
Nothing but a bunch of business babble and extra forms to fill out for nothing.
I go to vision associates for contacts and just recent they had a sign “now part of MyEyeDr” with a bunch of those goobers in there going over the ” new” stuff with the original employees and putting up all the new signs.
Slow news day? This isn’t news; it’s a press release. Dagger, please have some respect for your readership, and at least EDIT this kind of rubbish before you run it. Also: Upper Chesapeake is kinda late to this party. Harford County has plenty of urgent-care clinics…this is not a new concept.