Ashraf Salem M.D. - Quick Docs Brooklyn Walk In Urgent Care Clinic

Urgent care clinics are walk-in facilities, with no appointment needed. Patients can get the care they need and don't need to bother with the wait of the emergency room or the delays of getting an appointment with a primary care physician. The ability of an urgent care center to provide immediate care for acute, non-life threatening illness and injury is a critical component of any community’s health system. Cooperation between patients, primary physicians, emergency departments and urgent care providers can create a network of care options that puts the patient in the right hands at the right time for the right level of care. These facilities are making a difference in thousands of communities across the country.

The first urgent care centers opened in the 1970s. Since then, there are approximately 10,000 centers. Much of the growth of these centers has been fueled by the significant savings that urgent care centers provide over the care in a hospital emergency department. Urgent Care Centers provide a public service, in that; they reduce traffic and overcrowding in Emergency Rooms thereby, allowing them to focus mainly on patients with life-threatening conditions. Additionally, Urgent Care Centers reduce wait times for patients as well as health care costs, as it is cheaper to treat a patient in a clinic than it would be if the service were provided in a hospital setting. Dr. Salem works closely with his colleagues and staff at Quick Docs to serve a significant and vital part of the Brooklyn community.

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