WORST CLINIC! We usually go to the one on Maryland and they actually care. I had to take my dad to the urgent care because both of his feet were swollen, mind you we went for this before at another location and they treated us. He could barely walk and they didn't ask if we needed a wheelchair, so I thought they didn't have one. So then we got seen he said he had to send us somewhere else to get an ultrasound on his feet and he cannot prescribe anything to us for his pain or inflammation. Also he said that the location he is sending us to was called an ER at lakes but is sending us to Las Vegas blvd since it's closer, but he said they work with them and is same company, said they weren't a real emergency room. So I was trying to understand that was protocol. As we were leaving the doctor (found out he was a NP, not doctor) told the nurse to give us a wheelchair in front of us and she asked us if we would like a wheelchair.... I tried paying no mind to it because she was a little foreign but just a little irritating that you seen us struggle to get inside and out and didn't care to ask if we needed one. I really thought they don't have wheelchairs there. ALSO as we checked out, she didn't hold the door for us for me to push him out the door, I had to say it out loud "so she's just not going to hold the door for us?" That another patient in the lobby had said they'll help us! But how do you expect me to push him out the door if that other patient wasn't there?
I had obviously asked if we go to this new location, is the co pay going to the next since he wasn't treating us. He said he didn't know, which confused me because if they were the same company why would we have to do another co pay.
We went to the ER on Las Vegas blvd, they got us in quick cause no one was there but I asked the nurse if it was a real ER because it looked exactly like one and because we were told it wasn't a real emergency room and that "it just has the ER in their name".. she got really upset and told the lead nurse and she came to talk to me and got information to call this urgent care. They spoke to the NP they sent us and told him off.
The ER doctor immediately looked at my dad's feet and said it was gout (which we most likely knew it was) and just prescribed us medicine for it, didn't need ultrasound or anything. I definitely complained to the ER staff about our experience at care now urgent care and he said he dealt with them a few times and got complaints. He also looked at our papers and he's like he's not a doctor he's a Nurse practitioner.
If the NP genuinely didn't know, he could've just told the other doctor that was in (I seen her) for advice or tell us he can give us a refund on our co pay.
We had to pay $60 for him to do nothing and transfer us, and then ER $150!! For the ER to just give us medicine.
Sometimes I get protocol, but my dad went to care now urgent care in Maryland and they treated him the same way as the ER did. WITH CARE!
So now I am on the phone with customer service and asking for a refund, because we are not paying them for not treating us.
The Nurse practitioners name was MARCUS ALLAN MERCADO and I didn't get the nurses name, but she was a little foreign, short curler hair I believe with glasses.
He also gave us a little attitude since my dad wasn't understanding why he couldn't prescribe us medicine, then we got even more mad because that's exactly was ER did anyways. And his feet swelled down within hours after that. read more