HealthPartners Urgent Care Offers Walk-in Option for Kids’ Sports Physicals

If sports physicals are on your end-of-summer checklist, HealthPartners Clinics and Urgent Care locations offer several convenient options.

For patients who have a pediatrician or family practice physician, most of HealthPartners 24 primary care clinics offer same-day or next day appointments. And to further help busy parents and students get care when they want it, HealthPartners offers walk-in sports physicals at 12 urgent care clinics throughout the metro. This is the second year HealthPartners has offered sports physicals without an appointment in urgent care clinics, which are open in the evenings and on weekends.

“HealthPartners Clinics want to help families receive the care that they need at times that are convenient for them, and offering sports physicals in urgent care allows that,” said Rebecca Mitchell, MD, medical director of HealthPartners Urgent Care clinics.

The Minnesota State High School League requires that any student who intends to participate in sports or cheerleading activities must have a physical examination performed within the previous three years. The first day that teams can begin practice for football, volleyball, girls tennis, boys and girls cross country, girls swimming and boys and girls soccer is August 13.

Urgent care hours at HealthPartners Woodbury clinic are:

Monday-Friday:          1 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday                      9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Sunday                        9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Wait times for each of HealthPartners 12 urgent care locations are available online at healthpartners.com/urgent or by texting WAIT to 77199.