Health Care & Insurance  January 4, 2017

UCHealth opens urgent-care clinic in Thornton

 

THORNTON –  UCHealth has converted a free-standing emergency room to an urgent-care clinic in Thornton at the corner of 136th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard.

UCHealth also operates an emergency room at 120th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Thornton.

“It is important for patients to have access to the most appropriate level of care, close to home,” said Lori Japp, physician assistant and UCHealth’s vice president of urgent care.

“Urgent-care locations offer extended and weekend hours, and they are far less expensive than emergency departments,” she said.

The new urgent-care clinic, which opened Jan.…

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