GUILDERLAND — The Albany Med Health System will reopen its EmUrgentCare office in Guilderland, at the intersection of routes 20 and 155, on Monday, Jan. 2.

It will also reopen a Glenville urgent-care office; both offices are reopening on Jan. 2 after recent temporary closures.

They will offer walk-in care six days a week at a time when seasonal respiratory viruses and other illnesses are more prevalent in the community, according to a release from Albany Med.

“These walk-in clinics are staffed by emergency medicine-trained providers and offer easy access to other specialists within our system,” said Denis Pauze, M.D., chairman of Emergency Medicine at Albany Medical Center, in the release.

Appointments are not required for in-person visits, but they are encouraged. Virtual visits are also available every day and do require appointments. Appointments for in-person and virtual visits may be made at emurgentcare.com.

All of the system’s urgent care offices see patients of all ages seeking treatment for urgent and non-urgent illnesses and injuries such as sprains, strains and fractures, cuts and lacerations, ear and throat infections, asthma, bronchitis, and pneumonia.

When the Guilderland office opened in September 2018, Joni Ryan, occupational medicine coordinator for all of Albany Medical Center’s EmUrgentCare facilities in the Capital District, told The Enterprise that EmUrgentCare locations see many patients who do not have a primary-care physician. 

What the office cannot do, Ryan said, is bloodwork or follow-up on patients’ conditions. “We are not primary care,” Ryan said. The office can provide a list of primary-care providers and a prescription for bloodwork.

The reopened EmUrgentCare office in Guilderland is at 5 New Karner Rd. and is open six days a week, Monday to Friday and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and is closed Saturdays.

— Melissa Hale-Spencer