St Anthony’s at Lemay Urgent Care

I wish you could apply negative stars. I went into this place after suffering what turned out to be a gall bladder attack. As soon as I walked in the door, I was ‘greeted’ by a receptionist telling me they couldn’t do xrays. This was Sunday, February 7, 2016. Let’s all keep in mind that, in a woman, gall bladder and heart attack have identical symptoms. She told me I could go to the Arnold Urgent Care center. No one offered to take my pulse, my blood pressure — nothing. I did go to the emergency room. It was a gall bladder attack and I was admitted from the ER. I am now post op and on the road to recovery. DO NOT VISIT THIS PLACE IF YOU NEED ANYTHING OTHER THAN AN SPLINTER REMOVED.

Went for a injured left knee, but the right knee became painful as well — I assumed due to over compensation. By time my appointment was over, I could barely use either leg. Asked for any (like a steroid) meds to help with healing, but was told no — she wanted to see how I healed «naturally» but if I didn’t improve, to see a my regular doctor or specialist. This place could have prescribed an oral steroid (prednisone is safe for short term use) to help me heal, but refused — giving me a script for Ibuprofen. For 3+ days now I have suffered, can’t do steps without unbelievable pain; trying not to pee on the bathroom floor using the bathroom because I can’t get back up off the toilet. I don’t know why this PA (physician assistant) refused to do everything in her power to help me heal; especially since she agreed that a steroid could help. Why am I being subjected to prolonged pain and the indignity of trying to use the bathroom without getting stuck on the toilet until my legs get better? Did my case even get reviewed by a doctor? They didn’t even give me my x-​rays, so I had to make a 2^nd trip there to get them. Now in a follow-​up call the staff said I should have gone to the ER because «they» can do very much for a knee injury. What a horrible experience!

I took my husband to this urgent care because he had a tooth abscess that was making his entire face swell up. He was in extreme amount of pain and was unable to sleep because of it.
We got checked in and back into a room soon enough. However, things took a bad turn when the nurse came in to take vitals and get his patient history.
Not only did she berate us for not getting his dental work taken care of, despite the fact that we told her that he needs expensive dental surgery that we can not afford, she then told us outright that she didn’t believe that we had no luck in calling the area dental schools.
I stepped in and tried to tell her that, regardless of whether she was right about the dental schools or not, that she was upsetting my husband and that he needed treatment today. She CONTINUED to argue with me. As if he would chose to stay in constant dental pain with recurring dental infections by choice?!
Then, to add insult to injury, she implied that my husband lied about his ibuprofen allergy.
Finally, that horrible nurse left and the doctor came in. The doctor was barely in there for two minutes before she started harping on us about the exact same thing the nurse did.
The doctor then told my husband rather condescendingly, that she would prescribe antibiotics, but she would not prescribe narcotics. He didn’t even ask for narcotics! Instead she prescribed Meloxicam.
Tonight he started complaining of shortness of breath. He looked up more information about Meloxicam and come to find out it shouldn’t be given to people with high blood pressure and asthma. If this quack of a doctor had bothered to read his chart, she would have seen that his blood pressure reading from his visit was high and that he takes a rescue inhaler for asthma.
This doctor’s incompetence could have killed my husband. No one in my family will ever use another Saint Anthony’s facility and I will tell everyone I know about this visit and of the incompetence of their staff.

Think twice before coming to this junk Urgent Care. Probably applies to all St. Anthony Urgent Care.
First of all, I had a phone call from a friend telling me she not feeling good, dizzy, having ear problems and cough and asked me to drive her to this Urgent Care. They made us wait two hours inside the room waiting for the doctor. When she showed up, the doctor says «Oh it’s allergy, you don’t need anything» then we left.
My friend has an insurance, but she had to pay them $ 80.
Before a month ago, I had flu symptioms including, fever, dizziness, runny nose, throat sore I barely could swallow and felt weak and couldnt sleep well at night. Since my symptioms were getting worst everyday. I decided to go to this place to stop my symptioms from going any bad.
I came to this place on the weekend. There was NO ONE in the waiting room. They got me into a the doctor room waiting for freaking two hours and half even though there was NO other patinets but me. I even opened the door wondering, they told me the doctor will come eventually. After a long waiting time. The doctor came and asked me if she could do Strep test. After that she returned after another 25 minutes to tell me that nothing to worry about it’s allergy, and I dont need to take any prescribe medication. Anything over the counter will do it.
Since I did not have an insurance. My bill was $ 500 without STREP TEST. However, their confusing bill statement said I should pay $ 275 and Strep test cost $ 30 in different bill.
Does this look to you as good Urgent Care. The name is Urgent Care that supposed to provide medical attention as soon as you arrive not letting you wait in the doctor room for three freaking hours to collect money from your waiting time. There was no other patinets and they still force me to wait that long.
I highly recommend to get checked by CVS or Walgreen, they are better, fast and cheaper. They wont let you wait forever to tell you that you have allergy and all you need is to rest after a long wasting time waiting.
Think twice before coming to this junk Urgent Care.

I had a staph infection on my eyebrow with severe swelling around eye and nose. Attending physician did very little.
He drew blood, IV with fluids and sent me home. He didn’t prescribe any new medications since the one I was previously on wasn’t working.
I wouldn’t send my dog to this ER.

I have had two bad experiences at St. Anthony’s Urgent Care out of the maybe six times I’ve been there. Once they had me wait and go through tests only to tell me they could not help me and referred me to the emergency department at St. Anthony’s Medical Center. I assumed since they had referred me, I would already be on the list there, but I was not and had to start all over, complete all tests and paperwork again and wait several hours. I woke up the day after Christmas this year with what I thought was strep throat and headed to Urgent Care. Apparently everyone else was sick too, and I waited more than 2 hours to get in. They warned me of that upfront and were trying their best to keep things moving. The real problem was, once I was put in a room and met with the nurse, I waited an additional 45 minutes to see the doctor. I could hear the doctor in the next room chit-​chatting with a family with a young child and tickling the kid. He was very polite with me, but was clearly in a hurry. They never gave me my lab results either. The staff is usually friendly, the facilities are clean, but the outcome is iffy.

This fall, my regular doctor decides she’s getting into the concierge business – pay lots of $$$ per year up front for a few visits and many specialized tests, and drop taking any health insurance. You know, I understand that insurance red tape sucks and all, but you knew that going into the medical field. Screw you for dropping your patients unless they can lay down six months’ worth of mortgage payments for a bunch of tests and two visits a year. That shit just isn’t right.
Anyway…somehow I got bronchitis, and after coughing up about a pound of phlegm and some chunks of lung matter, I got dragged out to St. Anthony’s Urgent Care by my beloved (to whom I had given said bronchitis.) Service was incredibly fast (I waited a whole five minutes before being seen) and pretty friendly, given that this place is a patient merry-​go-​round. We got meds, doctor’s excuses for work, and they took our insurance. Thumbs up all around.