“How are you different from an Urgent Care Center?”

Urgent Care Centers aren’t staffed or equipped to treat emergencies. At Clear Lake ER, we can treat the same sort of emergencies as a hospital ER, but in a more comfortable setting without the long waiting times.

Urgent Care Centers are not regulated by the state. Freestanding emergency facilities like Clear Lake ER are required by the Department of Health to meet strict standards dealing with our staff, services, and equipment.

“Why are most ERs so crowded?”

Hospital based ERs are often crowded because of the hospital itself! When the hospital is full, admitted patients often wait for hours in the ER until a room becomes available upstairs. With many of their rooms and staff occupied by admitted patients, the new patients have to wait. And wait. And wait. At Clear Lake ER, we transfer patients to a variety of hospitals so our rooms and our staff are available to treat new patients quickly and efficiently. And since our laboratory, X-ray, and CT equipment are not shared by a busy hospital, our test results only take a few minutes.

But the main reason ERs are so crowded is that people have learned that the ER is the one place where they can go for rapid diagnosis and treatment on their schedule, not just 9 to 5 on weekdays.

The staff of Clear Lake ER has worked in busy hospitals for years, and we’ve learned that emergency care doesn’t always have to be provided in a hospital. Now we’ve brought our experience home to Clear Lake.

Personalized attention

While an assembly line ER may see 10 times more patients than we do each day, it’s not because they have 10 ER doctors on duty. That’s why we are able to provide the personalized cheerful attention that they can only dream of. Once you’ve experienced our type of service, you’ll see why the freestanding ER is the wave of the future in emergency medicine.