AFC Doctors Express Urgent Care Danbury, formerly known as Doctors Express, has announced the medical group will open a new urgent care medical facility in Danbury this summer, its third since 2013.
“We live in a world where fast food and pizza are at your fingertips, but good health care is not. We want to change that,” said co-owner Tom Kelly.
Kelly cites the growing popularity of walk-in urgent care facilities throughout the country and as well as here in Connecticut as indicators of the increasing need for fast and affordable health care access, particularly in Danbury.
According to AFC Doctors, there are approximately 50 AFC Doctors Express Urgent Care locations throughout the Northeast, making it the largest chain of urgent care centers in the region.
The new facility, set to open at 74 Newtown Road follows two other Danbury facilities at 2 Main St., opened in March 2013, and 100 Mill Plain Road, which opened this past spring.
The three facilities serve walk-in patients throughout the greater Danbury region including Bethel, Brookfield and Newtown, as well Pawling and Brewster across the border in New York.
According to the medical group, at all three centers, patients are treated under the care of local Board Certified Doctors, Physician Assistants and APRNs. All doctors are also USCIS Certified Civil Surgeons, and able to perform full immigration physicals as well. They are able to treat a variety of ailments including viruses and infections, cuts and fractures to ear, eye, and skin issues.
The new facility will have its own on-site laboratory, pharmacy and x-ray equipment enabling doctors to diagnose and treat illnesses and injuries as well as dispense medication to patients. Along with urgent care issues, AFC Urgent Care Danbury also provides physicals and vaccinations for school, sports, immigration, DOT and pre-employment in addition to an occupational health program for employers, providing care for Workers”™ Compensation cases and employee-related testing, such as drug screening and hearing tests.
The new health center is expected to create about 20 new jobs for the east side of Danbury.
“We are local guys investing our own money in a medical center to take care of folks in our community,” said co-owner Ron Krippner. “Unlike many private equity investors entering the urgent care space, we are not interested in simply opening and quickly flipping an operation. Rather, we are in it for the long haul ”“ we want AFC Doctors Express to make a positive contribution to our communities and to the future of Connecticut”™s health care landscape.”
