Virtual and Urgent Care in New Jersey
Comprehensive Care When You Need It Most
Hackensack Meridian Health provides fast, convenient, and expert care across New Jersey. Whether you need same-day treatment for minor injuries, advanced urgent care for higher-acuity conditions, emergency care for serious medical situations, or 24/7 virtual care from home, our network of centers and providers is here to help.
- HMH 24/7 Virtual Care: Access licensed providers anytime, anywhere, from home or on the go. Virtual care supports urgent and primary care needs, including minor illnesses, medication refills, chronic condition follow-ups, and behavioral health consultations.
- Urgent Care: Get fast, same-day treatment for minor illnesses and injuries, such as colds, flu, sprains, cuts, and mild infections. Walk-ins are welcome, and our experienced providers ensure you receive the right care quickly without the long wait of an emergency department.
- Urgent Care PLUS: For higher-acuity conditions requiring more advanced diagnostics or treatment, Urgent Care PLUS offers expanded capabilities, including lab tests, X-rays, and more complex care. This is ideal for patients with conditions that fall between standard urgent care and emergency care.
- Behavioral Health Urgent Care: Receive timely support for anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and acute mental health concerns, all integrated with your physical health care. Our providers offer assessment, treatment, and crisis intervention to stabilize patients and connect them with ongoing care.
Frequently Asked Urgent and Emergency Care Questions
Urgent Care is for injuries or illnesses that are not life threatening. Therefore, we recommend going to the Emergency Department with the following conditions:
- Chest pain
- Difficulty breathing
- Uncontrolled bleeding
- Loss of consciousness
- Sudden loss of vision or blurred vision
- Acute mental health issues or suicidal feelings
- Change in mental status or stroke symptoms
i.e. Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg, sudden confusion, difficulty speaking or understanding what is being said. Sudden loss of balance or loss of coordination.
Traditional urgent care centers have been around for over 40 years, providing quick and affordable walk-in care for life’s minor bumps, bruises, coughs, and colds.
Hackensack Meridian Health is the first in the nation to develop an urgent care with additional services to directly provide immediate care for mental and behavioral health issues and concerns (where there are no immediate safety risks).
Urgent care with Behavioral Health does not replace your regular psychiatrist or mental health professional or when going to the nearest hospital emergency room is necessary.
By combining medical urgent care services with behavioral health expertise, we can provide a thorough evaluation and diagnosis of physical medical conditions and mental health-related issues.
In many cases, symptoms like depression could be related to an underlying or undiagnosed medical condition (like a thyroid condition, hypertension, or chronic illness).
By visiting our office, our clinical team is equipped to identify medical conditions that may impact mental or behavior and understand and treat behavioral health conditions.
We offer a wide range of point-of-care on-site lab testing and can send out any specimen to a medical laboratory when necessary.
- Cultures, swabs, blood draw
- PPD
- Titers
- COVID-19 testing
- Rapid influenza A&B testing (results in 15 minutes)
- Rapid mononucleosis screening (results in 15 minutes)
- Rapid strep (results in 5 minutes)
- STD
- Urine pregnancy test
- Urinalysis
We will instruct you on the proper follow up for your specific injury/illness. After your Urgent Care visit we encourage all patients to follow up with your primary care doctor. However, if your symptoms persist and you are unable to make a timely appointment with a primary care doctor, please revisit our Urgent Care.
- If you are in need of a primary care doctor, click here for a recommended list.
