Urgent & Express Care Options to Fit Your Needs

Urgent Care

Sometimes you need immediate, convenient care. Advantage Health/Saint Mary's East Beltline Urgent Care Center offers comprehensive urgent care for adults and children. Seven days a week — our urgent care experts are available for you and your loved ones.

Our Urgent Care services include diagnosis and treatment of a full range of medical conditions, from minor to more serious, with dedicated access to complete radiology and lab testing services.

Urgent Care is staffed by attending physicians and a highly experienced nursing team. This team partners with the Saint Mary's downtown Grand Rapids campus Emergency Department and inpatient services for efficient transition of care, if needed.

East Beltline Urgent Care Center
Hours: 7 a.m.–10 p.m. (7 days a week)
Phone: 616-685-3414
Location:
Advantage Health/Saint Mary's Health Center
1471 East Beltline NE (East Beltline just north of Leonard)
Grand Rapids, MI  Map & Directions
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Express Care

If you or your loved ones are already patients of Advantage Health, weekday and weekend Express Care are available for those times when you just can't wait for an appointment.

Express Care provides walk-in service — during the early morning and evening hours — designed to treat a range of common ailments such as fever, minor cuts or flu like symptoms. For your convenience, a select number of generic, prepackaged medications — prescribed for everyday illnesses — are available.

For a list of Express Care locations and more information, click here.

Urgent Care Guidelines

Urgent Care treatment is best for these types of injuries:

• Head: No loss of consciousness, cuts less than one inch
• Ears: Earaches, infection, foreign object, severe dizziness or drainage
• Eyes: Scrapes, bruises, infections or a sty, objects in the eye, swelling around the eye
• Nose: Infection
• Throat: Sore throat
• Chest: Cough with or without fever, moderate asthma
• Abdomen: Persistent nausea and/or vomiting
• Genital/Urinary: Frequent trips to the bathroom, burning/pain with urination, vaginal/ penis discharge, bleeding or discomfort with intercourse
• Back: Minor strains or backache
• Limbs/Skin: Sprains without deformity, shallow or short cuts, stitch removal, puncture wounds to hands or feet, minor scrapes or burns, rash, insect or animal bites

Why you should choose Urgent Care instead of the Emergency Center for the listed conditions:

• You may have to wait longer in the Emergency Center, as the most serious injuries/cases are seen first.
• Co-pays are often more expensive in the Emergency Center than at Urgent Care.
• Your health plan may not pay for care if it is not a true emergency.