Acute care<\/a> is for those medical needs that result in an unplanned visit, for example, a sore throat, fever, headache, sinus infection, virus, minor cut or wound that needs attention.<\/p>\n\u201cThese are conditions that patients need to see a provider for \u2013 they may not be able to wait until the next day or Monday morning,\u201d Young said. \u201cExpanding acute care to cover more hours in the day means that we can often help patients avoid a more costly emergency department visit, which should be reserved for the most serious conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
When a medical need arises during weekday hours when clinics are open, a good first step is to call your primary care provider\u2019s office to see if you can get a same-day appointment. If your provider is not available, another provider at that clinic might have time in their schedule to see you.<\/p>\n
If a same-day appointment is not available at the clinic and you\u2019re not able to wait for an appointment, all-day acute care can be the next best stop. You can go online to Avera.org and save your spot in line.<\/p>\n
If your need involves a possible bone fracture, muscle strain or sprain, Avera offers orthopedic walk-in care at the Avera Specialty Hospital on the Avera on Louise Health Campus. Hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n
Acute care is not for yearly checkups, sports physicals, immunizations or medication refills.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose are needs that are best fulfilled by making an appointment with your primary care provider, who knows you best,\u201d Young said. Acute care also does not offer advanced imaging such as CT, MRI or ultrasound. X-ray is available, for example, to see if that intense pain in your arm after a nasty fall is a bone fracture or just a soft-tissue injury.<\/p>\n
Acute care is not designed to handle serious illness such as a possible heart attack or stroke, serious trauma or bleeding, or other life-threatening conditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose are situations for calling 911 or getting to the closest emergency department as quickly as possible,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n
The Avera Family Health Center at Marion Road also has an on-site, full-service emergency department. \u201cHaving both these levels of care available at the same site helps us ensure that people get the best level of care for their condition,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n
All-day acute care at Marion Road is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n
Evening and weekend acute care is open at Avera\u2019s clinics at Dawley Farm Village and at 69th\u00a0and Western from 5 to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe get very positive comments from patients on how nice it is that we\u2019re open evenings and weekends, and also a good response from people who are traveling through. They see it as being quick and convenient, and easier than they thought it would be to get care,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n
Learn more about urgent and acute care in Sioux Falls.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 6, 2026 This piece is sponsored by Avera. Acute care is a convenient option when you need…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-224436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}