Urgent Care

All Columbia Park clinics and Andover Urgent Care will be closed on Monday, May 26, 2008. Brooklyn Park Urgent Care will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Columbia Park Medical Group's Urgent Care provides adults and children with prompt, affordable, high quality medical service for accidents and sudden illnesses on a walk-in basis. Our Urgent Care is available to everyone. New patients are welcome!

Should I use CPMG's Urgent Care or the hospital emergency room?

Our Urgent Care provides medical treatment for minor illnesses and injuries such as:

The physician will focus on your immediate medical problem.

Our Urgent Care is not equipped the same as a hospital emergency room. Therefore, patients with a major medical emergency or a health problem with a life threatening nature should go directly to the hospital emergency room. Examples include chest pain, stroke symptoms, excessive bleeding and shortness of breath.

Should I come to Urgent Care for all of my regular health care needs?

Urgent Care should be reserved for special situations. It is not the appropriate site for preventive care or ongoing health care needs such as physical exams, immunizations, pre-natal care, geriatric care, chronic illnesses and follow-up visits. Instead, these services should be provided by your personal physician in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Med/Peds, Pediatrics or Obstetrics and Gynecology.

We encourage you to continue seeing your personal physician whenever possible by making an appointment. Establishing and maintaining an ongoing patient-doctor relationship with the personal physician of your choice at CPMG helps to ensure continuity of care with better coordination of services, and it will cost you somewhat less. Making an appointment also enables your personal physician to review your medical history in developing a comprehensive medical treatment plan.

Who provides the medical services for Urgent Care?

Services are provided by CPMG's established primary care physicians and occasionally by resident physicians or others. CPMG's Family Practice specialists in Urgent Care are well-suited to take care of your urgent medical problems. The Urgent Care physicians also have a wide range of other specialists available to them for consultation and referral as needed.

Certified lab and x-ray services are located on-site, staffed by skilled laboratory technicians and radiographers. Together with caring registered nurses and medical assistants, the entire CPMG staff is dedicated to meeting your health care needs.

What is the cost for UrgentCare?

Our Urgent Care is much less expensive than a typical visit to the hospital emergency room, and usually less time consuming.

The exact cost for Urgent Care will depend on the complexity of your medical problem and the lab and x-ray services required for diagnosis.

About our Urgent Care Providers:

J.W. Apostol, MD
C. Brancio, MD
S.H. Eliason, MD
T.A. Jacobson, MD
D.E. Johnson, MD
J. Kasbohm, PA-C
A. Underwood, PA-C

Urgent Care Locations and Hours: