SFH Urgent Care

On July 21st, the Children's Urgent Care Clinic will be closing and moving to the ER at SFH.  The new name will be Pediatric Emergency  Center.  The good news is that the director will be  the only board certified Pediatric Emergeny Physician in Tulsa, CeCe Guthrie.  The hours will be from 11am to 11pm daily.

The bad news is that clinic will require you to go through the ER at SFH and be triaged first.  Parking will be difficult and you will not be able to make an appt.  So for pediatric trauma and true emergencies this is a great thing, however for most of the visits to CHUCC-this is going to be very time consuming and inconvienent. 

So what are you going to do?  First, please do not go to the local adult urgent care unless you absolutely have to.   In addition, do not go to the "Urgi Clinics" that are available at Wal Mart and soon at Walgreens.   

I will try and make myself available as possible on the weekend.  As in a previous entry,  Dr O'Sullivan will be helping me some on Mondays/Friday.  I am also in the planning stages of Pediatric Urgent Care-separate from my office-located around 91st Memorial.  However this is still a few months away. 

Jennifer and I have been working on updating the web site to include more information that will helpful after hours.  We are going back and looking at every question that has been left on the nurse line over the past year and will add this to the website.  This obviously will not replace me or an urgent care visit if it is truly needed, but may give you some valuable information to get you "through the night."

I will keep you updated as things progress

I am going to  see the Foo Fighters in OKC on Thursday.  Cannot wait. 

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Comments

[Jeri]

So I guess my question is - what is the point of having a new children's hospital if they don't have their own urgent care or er. What a nightmare! oh well, I can only say my thoughts - it's not going to change.