“At Saltzer Health, we understand that illnesses and injuries can happen to anyone at any time,” says John Kaiser, MD, Saltzer’s vice president and chief medical officer. “The new Ten Mile Urgent Care 24-hour walk-in clinic will provide a valuable option for patients seeking convenient, affordable healthcare close to home.”
“Our goal is to deliver high-quality, accessible care and help patients avoid the expense of a costly emergency room visit,” says Rourke Yeakley, MD, a former emergency room physician and the chief medical director of the five Saltzer Health urgent care clinics in Idaho.
The urgent care team can treat colds, flu, urinary symptoms, strains, sprains, fractures, burns and other non-life threatening issues on a walk-in basis. The Ten Mile providers can also perform IV therapy and other more complex procedures.
“Our Ten Mile Urgent Care team members have extra training and can provide services beyond a typical urgent care,” says Stacy Chessmore, RN, director of the Saltzer Health urgent care clinics. “We can treat many medical conditions and save our patients from unnecessary trips to the valley’s busy hospital emergency rooms.”
The Ten Mile Urgent Care clinic, which is at 867 S. Vanguard Way at Ten Mile & I-84 in Meridian, is on the first floor of a four-story 147,000-square-foot medical building that will also soon house a five-modality imaging center, surgery center with five operating rooms and a procedure room, endoscopy suite, physical therapy services, and doctors’ clinics.
Saltzer Health operates urgent care clinics in Idaho in the cities of Meridian, Nampa, and Caldwell. Two new stand-alone clinics will open in the coming months at Barber Valley in East Boise and Paramount in North Meridian.
Saltzer Health is an Intermountain Healthcare company with nearly 80 primary care and specialty providers, more than 350 employees, 41,000 patients and nine clinics throughout Idaho’s Treasure Valley.