CareSpot Urgent Care | Orlando Health Expands Urgent Care Services to Avalon Park

    ORLANDO, FL, May 26, 2021 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The newest CareSpot Urgent Care | Orlando Health urgent care center is now open in the Avalon Park neighborhood of eastern Orlando.

The new location at 311 Avalon Park S Boulevard will serve residents of Avalon Park, University Park, Union Park and Bithlo. It will join 12 existing co-branded locations in the Orlando area.

This urgent care center will be open with extended hours, including nights and weekends -- 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week.

The facility is situated about two miles south of State Route 50, along Avalon Park Boulevard South near Golden Isle Boulevard.

CareSpot Urgent Care | Orlando Health offers a variety of urgent care services in Central Florida for illnesses and minor injuries that don't require an emergency room visit. Additionally, the new CareSpot Urgent Care | Orlando Health location in Avalon Park will immediately begin providing COVID-19 evaluations and testing. School and sports physicals will also be available.

The Avalon Park location will be able to treat a range of conditions such as strains, sprains, minor cuts, sore throats, and upper respiratory infections.

To provide a full spectrum of care, a broad range of wellness care and occupational health services will also be offered at the new Avalon Park urgent care center. X-rays, vaccinations, and a variety of lab tests will be available on-site.

While appointments are not required at CareSpot Urgent Care | Orlando Health locations, online scheduling and call-ahead options are available for convenience. Visit CareSpot.com for information on the new Avalon Park urgent care center as well as additional locations throughout the state of Florida.

About CareSpot Urgent Care

CareSpot Urgent Care is now part of FastMed, one of the nation's largest urgent care providers, with 192 clinics in Arizona, California, Florida, North Carolina and Texas. FastMed provides a broad range of acute/episodic, preventative, and occupational healthcare – in its clinics and via telemedicine – as well as family medicine at select clinics. FastMed is one of the few urgent care providers in the nation that has earned The Joint Commission's coveted Gold Seal of Approval ® for quality, safety and infection control in ambulatory healthcare. For more information, visit fastmed.com.

About Orlando Health

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $7.1 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States.

Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for its pediatric and adult Level One Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level Two Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of the nation's largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the only system in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health is a statutory teaching system that pioneers life-changing medical research. The 3,200-bed system includes 15 wholly-owned hospitals and emergency departments; rehabilitation services, cancer and heart institutes, imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, physician offices for adults and pediatrics, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with CareSpot Urgent Care. Nearly 4,200 physicians, representing more than 80 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs nearly 22,000 team members. In FY20, Orlando Health served nearly 150,000 inpatients and nearly 3.1 million outpatients. During that same time period, Orlando Health provided approximately $760 million in total value to the communities it serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more. Additional information can be found at http://www.orlandohealth.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @orlandohealth.

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