There’s still some staff training and final checks to undergo, but the American Family Care Urgent Care location in East Cobb should be open by later this week.
That’s the estimate that Dr. Leia Dawson, the new clinic’s medical director, said after a ribbon-cutting celebration on Tuesday.
The 3,600-square-foot facility at Merchant’s Festival Shopping Center (1401 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 390) is in the space of an urgent care facility that was bought out by Wellstar Health System.
It will provide a wide range of urgent and primary care walk-in services for adults and urgent care needs for minors, seven days a week.
Dawson, who’s headed a Floyd Urgent Care location in Rockmart and an AllCare location in Dallas, Ga., said AFC Urgent Care’s goal is simple.
“We want to ease some of the pressure off the ER,” said Dawson, who holds a Doctor of Osteopathy degree and is board-certified in family medicine.
“Our goal is to have you in and out in an hour.”
She said the time can depend upon the nature of an injury or service need.
AFC Urgent Care’s services include diagnostics tests with on-site equipment, including an X-ray machine, an on-site laboratory, occupational health exams and worker’s comp cases and “point of care” treatment for the flu, COVID and other illnesses.
AFC, based in Birmingham, has other Urgent Care locations in metro Atlanta, including near Town Center and in Roswell, among its 350 franchised locations around the country.
Dawson’s husband Brandon is the East Cobb clinic’s director of business development. They live in North Cobb with their two children.
AFC’s mission, according to Laura Bradbury, the company’s vice president of franchise operations, “is to bring health care to the community. That’s what makes us successful.”
Dawson noted a shortage of nurses and other medical personnel at facilities that has resulted in extended waiting and service times.
“It’s an economical option for people who don’t want to go to the hospital,” said Jack Norton, who’s doing media and public relations for the East Cobb facility.
The AFC Urgent Care location in East Cobb will include 14 staffers in addition to Dawson, including two nurse-practitioners. There also will be another medical doctor on call.
The location accepts most health insurance coverage. No appointments are needed.
Hours are fro 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Friday and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.
Phone: 470-250-1492
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