SL_profile_Roxborough Urgent Care_0424_Layout 1 5 / 3 / 24 12 : 02 PM Page 2 and offer occupational - health services such as pre - employment physicals and examinations of work - related injuries . Roxborough Urgent Care is open weekdays from 9 a.m . to 9 p.m . , and weekends from 9 a.m . to 5 p.m . While each patient comes to the facility with a specific need , every interaction represents an opportunity to reinforce habits and behaviors that can contribute to overall good health . “ It’s very much a liaison kind of relation - ship , ” says Dr . Jacobson , a board - certified family medicine physician who has more than 30 years of experience in family medicine , emergency care , and urgent care . “ If someone has high blood pressure , uncontrolled blood sugar , or high cholesterol , we can emphasize the importance of being active , maintaining a good [ body mass index ] , and adopting other healthy habits . ” In other words , urgent care plays a vital role in the ever - changing landscape of modern American health care ; it fills the void for sick or injured individuals with nonemergent con - ditions when their primary care physician is unavailable or the patient feels they cannot wait for an appointment . Dr . Minni charac - terizes it as “ a home away from home ” in terms of medical care . “ We can handle anything you throw at us , ” he adds . “ If a patient needs more specialized care , we can refer them to one of dozens of You never know what’s going to come specialists [ at Roxborough Memorial Hospital ] for prompt follow - up . ” through the door , so you have to be Also , if a patient presents with a truly emer - prepared to react . ” gentneed — symptoms consistent with appen - dicitis , for example — Roxborough Memorial — Dr . Michael a . Minni , roxborough urgent care Hospital is less than 10 minutes away . “ We’re both part of the same system , so “ If a patient can’t be seen in a timely enough our records are linked , ” Dr . Minni adds . “ That manner by their primary care physician , it’s a means I have the opportunity to see if the gift to be able to be seen promptly [ in urgent patient’s CAT scan has been read , which gives care ] for an acute illness or minor injury me a window into the medical decision - making without having to wait a longer period of time process . It’s part of the learning process for or visit the ER , which is not cost - effective . me . I also get a degree of closure , because I “ As a physician , it’s a privilege to do the get to find out if the patient is OK . ” job , ” he continues . “ Every day is a chance to Dr . Minni is a board - certified family prac - help a wonderful population of patients who tice physician . He’s also a lifelong Philadel - deservegood health . You have the opportunity phian . Born and raised in Northeast Philadel - to calm someone’s fears about an asthma phia , he earned his undergraduate degree attack or treat a child’s ear infection without from St . Joseph’s University and went to them having to suffer for longer periods of medical school at the Philadelphia College time . I get back as much as I give by doing of Osteopathic Medicine . He finds meaning urgent care . ” ? ? inthe opportunity to care for fellow Philadel - phians of all ages , backgrounds , and walks of life . urgent care “ I love what I get to do , ” he says . “ One of roxborough Memorial hospital the most stimulating aspects of urgent care is Andorra Shopping Center that you get to form relationships with people and put your own thumbprint on the care 701 Cathedral Road , Suite 11 they receive . ” Philadelphia , PA 19128 Likewise , Dr . Jacobson feels an affinity ( 267 ) 766 - 6321 toward Roxborough and its people . He lived roxboroughmemorial.com / in Roxborough while going to medical school at Temple University School of Medicine . our - services / urgent - care “ It’s a rewarding place to work , ” he says . SUBURBANLIFEMAGAZINE.COM VOLUME 15 ISSUE 8 | 51