About Immediate Care

The WNY Immediate Care Center cares for patients with sudden medical conditions that require treatment usually within 24 hours. Visit us with:   Sprains Minor Burns Broken Bones Cuts & Lacerations Animal/Insect Bites Bruises Rashes Ear Infections Cold/Flu Symptoms Eye Injuries Sudden Fever Sports Physicals Strep Throat

In early 2003, a group of board certified physicians conceived of an idea to open an ambulatory and Immediate Treatment center in the Western New York market. This group of physicians are all general partners in Buffalo Emergency Associates - who currently staff 7 emergency departments in Western New York. Because of their intimate familiarity with local emergency rooms as practicing ED physicians and leaders of Buffalo’s most prestigious group of emergency room physicians, they sought to alleviate many of the challenges currently faced in today’s emergency departments by providing an alternative solution for those patients not needing true “emergency” care and requiring access to care after normal business operating hours.

WNY Immediate Care Centers meet the needs of its patients, and customers in a high quality, compassionate and professional venue, serving patients with much lower levels of acuity that have traditionally gone to the hospital emergency department because their physician’s office was closed.

Dr. Greg Daniel, President and CEO of Buffalo Emergency Associates, explains the advantages in providing low-acuity patient care in an alternative setting include, but are not limited to:

• Lower co-pays compared to Emergency Room Visits
   
• Provides a less expensive alternative to patients and payers as opposed to the traditional emergency room
   
• Alleviation of crowding that currently occurs in our WNY emergency departments (EDs) due to congestion created by patients that are low-acuity cases and do not need the full range of personnel or services provided by the local, hospital-based EDs
   
• Opportunity to provide occupational healthcare services to the corporate community , and the provision of physicians to meet the demand in the community
   
• Provision of after-hours access to the community, when the offices of their primary care physician are typically closed