Emergicare Manassas

This was one of those gifts that keep giving. First of all, some county personnel will be happy because we kept getting written up for having the truck out in the parking lot. Second, the local Medical Missions is happy to send down some of their valuable medical supplies in it. Third, some good-hearted Haitians [...]

Allergies are the big problem now. We’ve seen it frequently. People are up all night coughing,  with inflammation in nostrils, coughing all night, itching in eyes, nose and throat. Some have difficulty breathing and wheezing. The other day, we treated 7 patients. Typically, we treat allergic rhinitis with either long-acting or short acting injections. We do everything we can to get [...]

We are happy that the state of Virginia has adopted some public health measures to slow the proliferation of prescription narcotic abuse.  For 10 months, Emergicare has participated with the Virginia Department of Health Prescription Monitoring Program.   This allows our physicians to track and report possible “doctor shoppers” who seek to abuse Schedule II-IV [...]

Emergicare will be open 2 hours late tomorrow. Open hours will be 11am -7pm on Thursday, February 11.

Sometimes we have patients who need senior care services. Today, we were happy to have Jennifer Bolles from Home Instead Senior Care  explain to us the many services that complement her company’s in-home Companion Care/Home Helper/personal care services: In-home Companion Care/Home Helper services eg. Home Instead Senior Care – not all of these offer personal care service (eg. [...]

Doctors at Emergicare don’t mind seeing educated patients. And here’s your tax dollars at work to provide some great health information resource. MedlinePlus directs you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. MedlinePlus also contains [...]

Due to the snow, Emergicare will close on Saturday, Feb 6 and Sunday, Feb 7.

With 4 physicians at Emergicare, one could afford to go help victims of the earthquake in Haiti while the other 3 still maintained excellent care. Dr. Woodard wrote the following: Sunday Jan 17 – joined Helping Haitian Angels. I saw Dr. Kevin Kollar whom I worked with in the Waynesboro, VA ER 20 years ago. [...]

Last Saturday, as the snowstorm became fierce, Emergicare still cared for a dozen patients between 9am and noon. Usually we are open until 5pm on Saturdays, but some of the employees needed to travel home a distance, so we opted for their safety.

This is taken from our comment box located at the patient check-out desk. How did I hear about Emergicare?  Workman’s comp What is the best quality of Emergicare? How they really seem to care and efforts to make environment “homey.” How should Emergicare improve its services? It was hard to see signs from street – you [...]