By Melissa Nix, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.
Jul. 24–When you can’t get to the doctor, or the emergency room seems foreboding — even if you are simply uninsured — a new Elk Grove clinic can help meet your medical needs.
Elk Grove Urgent Care, at 9045 Bruceville Road, is open 365 days a year from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
No appointments are necessary, and patients are seen usually within 20 minutes, said Margaret Kapasi, office manager.
The clinic can treat children and adults suffering from allergies, insect bites, burns, eye injuries, bone fractures and sprains, and other minor illnesses and injuries.
Urgent Care also provides X-rays, flu shots, immunizations and can perform a variety of laboratory tests.
Immigration physicals and travel shots are available by appointment.
“There are different definitions of urgent care,” Kapasi said.
Save for major injuries and diseases — such as heart attacks or strokes, the clinic operates as a small emergency room, she said, and is a lot less costly than a trip to the emergency room.
As for those who are uninsured, the clinic discounts doctor visits and treatment by 30 percent.
For more information, call (916) 479-9110 or visit www.elkgrove-urgentcare.com.
AAA closes center early
AAA of Northern California announced last week that it will close its Elk Grove center by the end of 2010 — a year earlier than expected.
The call center, at 9700 West Taron Drive, opened in 2003 and employs 500 people.
The company has said greater efficiencies can be obtained by moving operations out of the state, to Arizona and Oklahoma, specifically.
The company told The Bee in October that it may offer its Elk Grove employees severance packages, transfers to other sites or into other company positions.
The Elk Grove center, which handles about 200,000 insurance, membership and road service calls per month, will be the last of AAA’s three California call facilities to close. The Livermore site will close Sept. 1; the Irvine site March 2009.
Once the call center closes, the AAA building will be sold, said spokesman Sean Comey.
Bee business columnist to speak
Bob Shallit, a business columnist for The Bee, will be the guest speaker at the Elk Grove Chamber of Commerce membership meeting and luncheon Friday at the Valley Hi Country Club, 9595 Franklin Blvd.
Check-in and networking begins at 11:30 a.m. The luncheon and program begins at noon.
The cost is $25. Chamber members gain entrance for $20.
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