CANANDAIGUA – UR Medicine Thompson Health is temporarily suspending operations at its Farmington Urgent Care location, effective Saturday, Sept. 25.
Through Friday, Sept. 24, the hours at this location will be 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Thompson officials said the upcoming, temporary closure is to consolidate and redeploy staff across its health system, offsetting current staffing challenges.
The building housing Farmington Urgent Care, at 1160 Corporate Drive, also houses the health system’s Farmington Pediatrics office, its Farmington OB/GYN site, its Farmington Rehabilitation Services location and its occupational medicine program, called HealthWorks. Each of those will remain open.
The space typically used by the Urgent Care Center will be utilized for an outpatient monoclonal antibody injection clinic to treat mildly symptomatic, but high-risk COVID-19 patients. These patients will use a separate entrance and will have been evaluated for the therapy by a primary care provider. The injection will be given only to those who have been scheduled by the primary care provider for their appointment.
Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua is already experiencing high patient volumes in its Emergency Department, so hospital officials are encouraging local residents in need of urgent care to use Thompson’s other two urgent care locations once the Farmington location temporarily closes. Canandaigua Urgent Care, at 699 S. Main St., is 8.4 miles from the Farmington location. Newark Urgent Care, 800 W. Miller St, is 17 miles from the Farmington location. For hours, visit www.ThompsonHealth.com/UrgentCare. The website also offers a side-by-side comparison to show examples of situations calling for urgent care versus emergency care. At both locations, telemedicine is an option for some patients, depending on the nature of their illness.
In addition, UR Medicine has a location nearby, in Perinton, at 1669 Pittsford-Victor Road (Route 96). Additional UR Medicine locations can be found at www.URMC.Rochester.edu/Urgent-Care.