Plessen Announces the Opening of Urgent Care Center for patients ages 2 and up!
ST CROIX, USVI, September 15, 2020 – Monday, September 21, 2020 is the first day Plessen Healthcare welcomes patients to their new, state of the art Urgent Care facility, centrally located in the Sunny Isles Shopping Center.
Open seven days per week, the Urgent Care Center will see patients from ages two and up.
Upon the opening of the Urgent Care Center, all Plessen Healthcare clients who require care on a walk-in basis will be seen at the new Urgent Care location at Sunny Isles. Patients will be able to walk-in to be seen in turn or alternatively may choose to remotely save their place in line through the online system, adding efficiency to the experience. The online option will be available at plessenhealthcare.com as of opening day.
The Urgent Care Center will be open 7 days per week and will be equipped with X-ray and laboratory diagnostics.Now you have a place to bring your child or elderly relative on the weekends when they get sick or hurt themselves. We wanted to address that need in the community.
Temporary Hours of operation will be:
- Monday – Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Extended Hours – Coming Soon! – will be:
- Monday – Friday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Plessen’s Urgent Care has been established with the same diligence and dedication to excellent care since their opening on St. Croix in 2015. The Urgent Care Center will be teamed with experienced emergency and urgent care providers.
“Now you have a place to bring your child or elderly relative on the weekends when they get sick or hurt themselves. We wanted to address that need in the community. With the addition of our Urgent Care Center, Plessen has become an integrated healthcare system. We are now able to care for our patients all around when they have an injury or an acute issue, and then have a follow-up visit in our primary care or specialty care clinic, and provide them with surgery when they need it. This, as well as our Telehealth program, allows our patients to receive a full spectrum of care, all linked together with our healthcare information exchange technology,” shares Dr. Jan Tawakol, co-founder of Plessen Healthcare LLC.
The medical clinic in Orange Grove will continue to serve patient primary care and specialty healthcare needs, by appointment only. Appointments can be made by calling 340.715.7720.
Plessen Healthcare is now a Fully Integrated Healthcare System comprised of Urgent Care, Primary Care, Specialty Care and The Virgins Island’s very first AAAHC Accredited and CMS Certified Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery Center – taking care of all of St Croix’s healthcare needs under one orange umbrella!
Plessen is proud to be of service to the St. Croix community and looks forward to offering their high standard of care including children’s urgent care needs.
About Plessen Healthcare, LLC
Plessen Healthcare, LLC. was founded on St Croix, US Virgin Islands in 2014 by Dr. Jan Tawakol and Dr. Tasnim Khan, on the fundamental belief that world class health care should be accessible to everyone. The Plessen Orange Gove medical campus includes a full-service, multi-specialty medical clinic and the only CMS accredited surgical center in the USVI. As of September 2020, the Urgent Care Center located at Sunny Isles serves patients ages two and up, seven days per week. Plessen is committed to affordable, accountable and efficient healthcare and is centrally located within the Caribbean for easy travel from down island, the British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Bermuda and the U.S. mainland.
For questions or more information, please contact Angela East at aeast@plessenhealthcare.com
