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Health and Wellness | May 20, 2025
What Is Urgent Care For?
Find out whether your minor injury should have you going to urgent care, walk-in clinic, the ER or your primary care physician.
Health and Wellness | December 5, 2023
Should You Go to the Emergency Room or Urgent Care?
For immediate and appropriate care, should you head to a walk-in clinic, urgent care or emergency room? Scripps offers direction.
Health and Wellness | June 10, 2020
When to Go to the ER vs. Urgent Care vs. a Walk-in Clinic (podcast)
Scripps physicians discuss when to go to the emergency room, urgent care and walk-in clinic. Knowing where to go can make a life and death difference.
Scripps in the News | April 20, 2020
KUSI Explores Concerns About Drop in Non-COVID-19 Visits to Local ERs
KUSI News explores why there's a drop in non-COVID-19 emergency and urgent care visits. See what Ghazala Sharieff, MD, MBA, had to say in the interview.
News Releases | April 14, 2020
Needs of Health Care Providers Must be Met Before COVID-19 Restrictions Are Relaxed
Scripps Health released an open letter from its President and CEO Chris Van Gorder about reopening society during the coronavirus pandemic.
News Releases | March 13, 2020
Scripps Health Launches Nurse Line Dedicated to COVID-19
Scripps Health has launched a COVID-19 nurse line to connect patients to nurses who are screening people with coronavirus symptoms.
Scripps in the News | July 15, 2015
Scripps Expert Explains Difference Between ER and Urgent Care on KUSI
Scripps La Jolla emergency room physician Shawn Evans explains conditions that require an emergency room visit and those where a trip to urgent care will do.