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Go to an Urgent Care Center...
Go to the Emergency Room...
When you have a life-threatening situation, the emergency room of the
nearest hospital is your only option. If
you have a serious condition — stroke, heart attack, severe bleeding, head
injury or other major trauma —
 go
straight to the nearest ER, or better yet... call 911 and have the ambulance
take you in. Those arriving by ambulance are taken in faster than those waiting
in the ER. Don't take a chance with anything life-threatening.
If your condition is less serious but still requires immediate attention, an
urgent care center can accommodate you faster and save you lots of money.
 Going
to an urgent care center also helps keep the emergency room free to handle more
serious situations. If you have a non-life-threatening situation like a sprained
ankle or an ear infection and go to the ER, you may end up waiting many long
hours and paying hundreds of dollars unnecessarily. Most urgent care centers are
open for extended hours and can accommodate you and provide relief or care more
quickly.
Go to an Urgent Care Center...
For minor illness or injury that requires immediate medical care but is not
life-threatening.
When in doubt, call ahead. If the urgent care center can't accommodate the
condition, they will advise you to go the nearest hospital emergency room.
- Abscess Needing Incision & Draining
- Allergies or Allergic Reaction
- Asthma Attack (mild)
- Athlete's Foot or Fungus Infection
-
 Bronchitis
- Colds
- Cough
- Dehydration
- Dizziness
- Ear Infection or Earache
- Eye Infection or Injury
- Fever
- Flu & Flu Shots
- Gastrointestinal Disorder
- Insect Bites
- Migraine
- Minor Burn
- Minor Cut or Laceration
- Minor Head Injury
- Nausea
- Pink Eye
- Rash
- Simple Fracture
- Sinus Infection
- Sore Throat
- Sprain or Strain
- STD Testing & Treatment
- Stitches
- Urinary Tract Infection
- Wound or Skin Infection
Urgent Care Centers in The Villages —
Updated
Go to the Emergency Room...
 For serious illness or injury.
Seek
emergency care by calling 911 when serious, life-threatening illness or injury
is suspected.
Do not go to an urgent care center for a life-threatening condition; they
will just send you to the ER in an ambulance and you could lose valuable and
possibly life-saving time than if you called 911 yourself.
- Chest Pain or Pressure
- Compound Fracture (bone is showing)
- Confusion
- Coughing Blood
- Difficulty Breathing
- Fainting
- Fever in Infant (less than 2 months old)
- Heart Attack
- High Fever
- Ingestion of Obstructive Object
- Major Head Injury
- One-sided Weakness or Numbness
- Palpitations
- Pneumonia
- Seizure
-
 Severe
Abdominal Pain
- Severe Asthma Attack
- Severe Burn
- Severe Headache
- Severe or Persistent Vomiting or Diarrhea
- Shock
- Significant Trauma or Injury
- Snake Bite
- Stroke
- Sudden Dizziness or Weakness
- Sudden Loss of Vision or Blurred Vision
- Sudden or Severe Pain
- Unconscious or Catatonic State
- Uncontrollable Bleeding
- Vomiting Blood
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