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On March 1st 2012, Premier Urgent Care will open the doors to its newest urgent care medical facility located at 499 Beckett Road. Premier-Swedesboro is the company’s seventh facility. Patients are seen on a walk-in basis, with no appointments necessary. Centers treat a full range of illnesses and injuries, from simple ailments like the common cold to more complicated problems like major lacerations, broken bones and asthma attacks. Accepting most major insurances (including Horizon).

Premier Urgent Care Exton has again been chosen as the Top Urgent Facility in Chester County for 2011. This is the second consecutive year Premier has been selected by The Daily Local News, as the best Urgent Care in the area. It is a great honor to be recognized in the community for the services we provide. Thank you for the hard work and continued dedication.

Dr. Edward Silverman thought:There has to be a better way to do this. The hospital administrator and cardiothoracic physician had observed wait times in emergency rooms around the country grow increasingly longer during his long career in medicine--according to one study patients were now spending an average, nationwide, of four hours and three minutes in the Emergency Department during the typical visit.

Pictured from left: Colleen Whiteside, Premier medical assistant; Dr. Cecilia Sanders and Jessica Costa, receptionist at the new Premier Urgent Care in Kennett Square.

Holly Meisner, a recent transplant from Pittsburgh to Mount Laurel, found herself on a holiday weekend with three sick kids, a sick husband and her own health sinking fast. "We had some weird infection, with flulike symptoms. Getting all of us seen in an emergency room would have taken hours, plus $75 each in co-pays. A neighbor suggested urgent care and the experience made me a convert," said Meisner, a health care administrator.