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Health and Wellness | December 5, 2023

Should You Go to the Emergency Room or Urgent Care?

For immediate and appropriate care, should you head to a walk-in clinic, urgent care or emergency room? Scripps offers direction.
Health and Wellness | June 10, 2020

When to Go to the ER vs. Urgent Care vs. a Walk-in Clinic (podcast)

Shawn Evans, MD, is an emergency medicine physician, who is featured in San Diego Health podcast.
Scripps physicians discuss when to go to the emergency room, urgent care and walk-in clinic. Knowing where to go can make a life and death difference.
Scripps in the News | April 20, 2020

KUSI Explores Concerns About Drop in Non-COVID-19 Visits to Local ERs

Ghazala Sharieff, MD, corporate senior vice president, chief medical and operations officer, acute care at Scripps Health
KUSI News explores why there's a drop in non-COVID-19 emergency and urgent care visits. See what Ghazala Sharieff, MD, MBA, had to say in the interview.
News Releases | April 14, 2020

Needs of Health Care Providers Must be Met Before COVID-19 Restrictions Are Relaxed

Scripps Health released an open letter from its President and CEO Chris Van Gorder about reopening society during the coronavirus pandemic.
News Releases | March 13, 2020

Scripps Health Launches Nurse Line Dedicated to COVID-19

Scripps Health has launched a COVID-19 nurse line to connect patients to nurses who are screening people with coronavirus symptoms.
Health and Wellness | December 31, 2018

When It’s Time for Urgent Care

A primary care doctor checks the foot of a little girl who injured herself while playing. She sought immediate help at an urgent care clinic.
Find out whether your minor injury should have you going to urgent care, walk-in clinic, the ER or your primary care physician.
Scripps in the News | July 15, 2015

Scripps Expert Explains Difference Between ER and Urgent Care on KUSI

Scripps La Jolla emergency room physician Shawn Evans explains conditions that require an emergency room visit and those where a trip to urgent care will do.