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Jamestown  (CSi)  Starting January 3, 2017, Sanford Clinic in Jamestown no  longer has a walk-in clinic.  Instead they are offering same-day appointments for anyone with an illness or injury who needs to be seen right away.

On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jamestown Sanford Clinic’s, Director Jon Lillejord said while the same-day appointments are new, patients for the most part are receptive to the plan, and are positive.

He said patients have indicated their displeasure with not knowing who the health care provider is at walk-in appointments and that they could not see their regular health care provider, at the walk-in clinic, in addition to long waits.

With same-day appointments, patients now know who they will see for the examination.

He said same Day appointments must be scheduled on the day that you wish to be seen or can be scheduled Monday through Thursday afternoon for the following morning.  To schedule a same-day appointment, please call 701-253-4000 or 701-251-6000.  You may be able to see your primary care provider, but if that is not possible, there will be opening with at least one of our providers each day.

The Same Day Clinic is not for routine visits such as physicals, well child visits, sports physicals, diabetic checks, medication refills and so on.  These types of appointments should be scheduled in advance in with your provider.

He said, if you wake up in the morning and are not feeling well, call right away to schedule your same day appointment.  If illness hits later in the day, call right away, if we can’t fit you in that day, we’ll get you on the schedule for the next morning.

Lillejord pointed out that Sanford Clinic is hoping that the change to same day appointments will eliminate the long wait times that were sometimes experienced at the walk-in clinic.

He added that presently one same-day physician is seeing patients with 15 minute appointments with 32 daily appointments.

When Dr. Johnson returns next week there will be two same-day appointment physicians taking 64, 15 minute daily appointments.

There will be three health care providers seeing patients on a rotational basis, in conjunction with scheduled routine appointments.

Lillejord added that the clinic has not had Saturday hours for some time, noting not many walk-ins were seen then, plus services such as X-Rays and blood tests were not available on Saturday’s

He added that over the weekend, or anytime, Jamestown Regional Medical Center’s Emergency Department is available.