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Kids’ illnesses and accidents don’t always happen during regular primary care office hours. When your child is under the weather and needs medical care quickly, an urgent care clinic can provide the care and treatment your child needs. However, with so many options available, you want to feel confident that you’re making the right choice when selecting an urgent care clinic for your child.
Below are the top 10 things to look for when choosing an urgent care clinic for your child, along with an explanation of why I think you should consider Children’s Wisconsin.
Our clinics are open evenings and weekends, when your primary care doctor’s office is closed, including one clinic that is open on holidays. We currently have four locations in the Milwaukee area, and appointments are never needed.
Our clinics are staffed by board-certified pediatricians and specially trained advanced practice nurse practitioners. Our team is dedicated to quality improvement and evidence-based medicine to treat your child with the best pediatric care in the area.
We always have a pediatrician available at each site. As pediatricians, we are well equipped to treat the more complex problems that children often experience, such as cuts, sprains or fractures, infections, concussions, or trouble breathing.
Our staff is specially trained to work with children of any age. We love working with kids. It’s all we do! We have the only urgent care clinics in the Milwaukee area dedicated solely to children.
Compared to an emergency room visit, charges and co-pays are almost always less with urgent care. Wait times are also usually shorter. However, if your child has a serious injury or illness and needs emergency care, call 911 or take them straight to the nearest emergency department.
We work with your child’s health care team, including your primary care doctor, the emergency department, and specialists at Children’s Wisconsin to coordinate treatment and follow-up care if needed.
Our clinics use a state-of-the-art electronic health record (EHR), which is the same used by the entire Children’s Wisconsin system. This allows us to easily find and share information with your child’s care team.
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Our website and mobile app (Children’s On Call) have a lot of helpful information, including our locations, hours, phone numbers and services available at each site. They also have helpful links and tools to help you decide if and where to seek care as well as tips for care at home.
We now offer urgent care reservations! Our urgent care reservations system helps you see approximate wait times at each of our locations, and even reserve a time slot for a specific time and location. You can make a reservation directly from your computer or mobile device.
Online reservations can reduce wait times in the clinic and let you to stay in the comfort of your home until you need to come in. This option can also help you find the closest or most convenient clinic, and even the one with the shortest wait.
All of our sites use phone interpreters for any language needed. In addition, our 16th Street clinichas staff (including providers) who are fluent in Spanish, and also has Spanish-speaking interpreters on-site at all times.
We provide thorough discharge instructions that give you plenty of information on your child’s condition, what to do at home, and when and where to follow up. Our providers and nurses take the time to make sure you understand everything you need to do to care for your child.
Children’s Wisconsin’s urgent care is always evolving and finding new ways to help our patients and families care for their children and keep them healthy. In addition, our provider team has grown to include more than 20 pediatricians and advanced nurse practitioners, and we will continue to grow so that we can always be there when you need us.
Children’s Wisconsin’s urgent care clinics have been caring for children in the Milwaukee area for more than 20 years. While many things change in a 20-year period, one thing remains constant: We continue to offer high-quality, child-centered, connected care for your family when you need us.
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