For urgent but not emergency situations, you may want to take your child to one of our pediatric urgent care or extended-hours clinics. Because these locations do not treat serious life-threatening emergencies, your child may actually be seen sooner than in an emergency department where the most serious emergency is treated first.

Like a pediatric emergency department, a pediatric urgent care or extended-hours clinic has child-sized equipment and is staffed by pediatricians and pediatric nurses. Using these clinics is appropriate when your child has an urgent problem that is not life-threatening. This includes:

• Minor accidents and falls
• Bleeding and cuts
• High fever
• Vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration
• Sore throats and ear pain

In many cases, you can check the estimated wait time for Sutter Urgent Care locations online.