AFC Doctors Express Urgent Care, which operates 126 medical facilities in 26 states, recently opened a new center in Norwalk at 607 Main Ave. in the Center 7 Shopping Center, near the Department of Motor Vehicles.
The Norwalk Doctors Express Urgent Care site is the fifth facility for the company in Fairfield County. Doctors Expresses are already running at 2 Main St. and 100 Mill Plain Road in Danbury, at 3000 Summer St. in Stamford and at 161 Boston Ave. in Bridgeport.
A Doctors Express is slated to open in Fairfield in early October, the company said in a statement announcing the Norwalk ribbon-cutting.
Attendees included Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling; Edward J. Musante Jr., president of the Greater Norwalk Chamber of Commerce; Dr. Mark Wasserman, company medical director; and business owner/partner Ken Goldberg.
Goldberg, a Westport resident, said, “We hope to provide a convenient option for health care without the need for an appointment.”
“Not only will Doctors Express Norwalk help reduce the burden of overworked emergency departments, but it will reduce the wait time for patients with non-life threatening emergencies,” Wasserman said.
At the one-year anniversary for the Stamford site in June, AFC Doctors Express said that facility alone had treated more than 7,000 patients and, by operating in a nonhospital environment, had saved those patients a total $1 million in fees.
The Norwalk urgent care center will be open seven days a week, weekdays 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and weekends 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The medical staff is composed of board-certified or board-eligible physicians, X-ray technologists, nurses and medical assistants.
Goldberg, in the statement announcing the opening, said, “There has been an outpouring of support for the new AFC/Doctors Express Urgent Care center from our neighboring restaurants, hotels and retailers. Many of the local businesses including Garelick & Herbs in Westport, and Stew Leonard”™s, Mediterraneo Restaurant, GNC in Norwalk have welcomed us so enthusiastically and offered to be a part of our grand opening celebration. We hope to grow these and other relationships in order to service the communities of Norwalk, Westport, Wilton, New Canaan, Darien by our highly credentialed medical staff.
“I was immediately attracted to this prime location on Main Avenue in Norwalk,” he said. “There are thousands of folks that travel past this location each day, driving from their homes, to jobs, retailers and restaurants.”