D2 FRIDAY , AUGUST 30 , 2024 | NEWS AND TRIBUNE
JEFFERSONVILLE – Baptist Health ER & Urgent Care in Jeffersonville opened Aug . 15 , 2022 , and the response from the community in its first two years has been great .
The facility , located at 3516 E . 10th St . in Jeffersonville , is the area ’ s first hybrid freestanding emergency room .
What makes the facility so unique is patients no longer have to guess what kind of treatment they need . They can receive either emergency or urgent care under one roof . They are charged for the services they receive .
Baptist Health ER & Urgent Care is open 24 hours a day , seven days a week . The facility is equipped with onsite lab equipment , a radiology suite with X-ray and multi-slice CT scanners .
Baptist Health collaborated with Intuitive Health to build southern Indiana ’ s first emergency room and urgent care under
one roof . Since 2008 , Intuitive Health has collaborated with healthcare systems across the country to build freestanding facilities that provide emergency and urgent care services .
An emergency room physician examines each patient and determines if the appropriate care is emergent or urgent care . Patients are billed accordingly , only paying for the level of care they need , which eliminates unnecessary emergency room visits .
The facility is in-network with most major insurance plans and accepts Medicare and Medicaid .
Some key features of the facilities include :
Before treatment even begins , patients are informed if they will be treated as an urgent care patient or as an emergency room patient , in which additional consent is needed .
Over 70 % of patients can be treated and
billed at the urgent care level . Each staff member is trained in servant leadership with the primary objective to serve patients .
Every patient is examined by a board-certified and ER-licensed physician , regardless of the level of care they need .
Onsite imaging is staffed by a technologist 24 hours a day .
The facility treats everything a hospital emergency room treats , from allergies to appendicitis .
More information about Baptist Health Floyd is available at baptisthealth . com / location / jeffersonville-hybrid-er-urgent-care