Hackensack Meridian Urgent Care PLUS - Hoboken

Each facility is staffed by board-certified emergency physicians and supported by a professional nursing and support staff with emergency and critical care experience. We are also equipped with diagnostic modalities that include CT scan, X-ray, and ECG’s. We also have advanced on-site labs with results available during your visit. These services provide our communities with extensive care for higher acuity cases in a "One Stop" model, so patients don’t need to go to multiple locations, or to the ED for these services.

We also function just like a “traditional” urgent care, welcoming walk-ins and offering the same range of services you would expect from a lower acuity Urgent Care, in addition to our added capabilities.

Urgent Care PLUS offers a convenient, low-stress environment with a lower average wait time compared to the ED. When visiting our facilities there is a reduced risk of cross-contamination versus the ED. We treat and send directly home approximately 97% of the patients we see. This can significantly lower the risk of being admitted to the hospital or being placed in observation status when one visits an ED, ultimately resulting in faster and better outcomes for the patient. Also, patients insurance co-pay (out of pocket expense) is normally lower going to an urgent care versus ED.

Urgent Care PLUS is for injuries or illnesses that are not life threatening. Patients should go to the Emergency Department when they need an immediate specialist consultation. Therefore, we recommend going to the Emergency Department with the following conditions:

• Severe or prolonged chest pain, especially if you have had a prior heart attack, had cardiothoracic surgery or stent placement within the last year.
• Prolonged severe difficulty
• Breathing bleeding from significant trauma that can’t be controlled with direct pressure
• Unresolving loss of consciousness
• Sudden loss of vision
• Acute mental health issues or suicidal feelings
• Stroke symptoms such as slurred speech, weakness of the face, arm or leg, sudden confusion, difficulty speaking or understanding what is being said.
• Sudden loss of coordination.
• Complications with technical devices such as dialysis shunts, tracheostomies, colostomy bags, pacemakers

We offer a wide range of on-site lab testing and can send out any specimen to a medical laboratory when necessary. Our labs on site include most of the tests that an emergency physician needs to make clinical decisions in an emergency department.

• Cell blood counts, e.g. white blood cell count, hemoglobin, hematocrit, platelet count
• Kidney function tests, e.g. BUN, creatinine
• Markers for myocardial ischemia, i.e. troponin
• Marker for pulmonary embolism and aortic dissection, i.e. D-Dimer
• COVID-19 testing
• Rapid influenza A&B testing results during your visit or within an hour
• Rapid mononucleosis screening results during your visit or within a couple of hours
• Rapid strep results during your visit or within an hour based upon the number of patients
• Urine pregnancy test
• Urinalysis

These tests are done only if you present with a condition for which it is indicated for diagnostic reasons:

• Cultures of urine, blood, wounds/abscesses
• Stool for “PCR”, e.g. bloody diarrhea
• PPD if related to a medical complaint, e.g. cough and exposure to tuberculosis
• Assortment of other tests as determined by the Urgent Care PLUS physician