When should I go to Urgent Care?
Urgent Care treatment is best for these types of injuries:
- Head: No loss of consciousness, cuts less than one inch
- Ears: Earaches, infection, foreign object, severe dizziness or drainage
- Eyes: Scrapes, bruises, infections or a sty, objects in the eye, swelling around the eye
- Nose: Infection
- Throat: Sore throat
- Chest: Cough with or without fever, moderate asthma
- Abdomen: Persistent nausea and/or vomiting
- Genital/Urinary: Frequent trips to the bathroom, burning/pain with urination, vaginal/ penis discharge, bleeding or discomfort with intercourse
- Back: Minor strains or backache
- Limbs/Skin: Sprains without deformity, shallow or short cuts, stitch removal, puncture wounds to hands or feet, minor scrapes or burns, rash, insect or animal bites
- You may have to wait longer in the Emergency Center, as the most serious injuries/cases are seen first.
- Co-pays are often more expensive in the Emergency Center than at Urgent Care.
- Your health plan may not pay for care if it is not a true emergency.
For Urgent Care needs, visit one of these locations:
| Lakes Village 6401 Prairie Street, Norton Shores Near The Lakes Mall 9 a.m.–9 p.m., Monday–Friday 9 a.m–6 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 231-724-7800 Maps & Directions | Lakeshore Medical Center 905 E. Colby Street, Whitehall 8:30 a.m.–8 p.m., Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m.–2 p.m., Saturday Closed on Sunday 231-728-5910 Maps & Directions | General Campus 1700 Oak Avenue, Muskegon Noon–9 p.m., Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–9 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 231-672-6430 Maps & Directions |