Carlisle, PA, August 14, 2013 - AllBetterCare Urgent Care, a west shore provider of urgent care and occupational medicine services, is opening its newest location this month at 1175 Walnut Bottom Road in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. A community grand opening event is scheduled for Thursday, August 22, 2013, from 12-6pm. The official first day of patient care will be Friday, August 23, 2013, 8am-8pm with walk-in care available 7 days a week from 8am-8pm daily.

This is AllBetterCare's second center to open in Central PA since April 2010 when the 6481 Carlisle Pike location opened in Mechanicsburg. The brand new Walnut Bottom Rd center in Carlisle provides the same clean, comfortable, conveniently located facility which has already served more than 30,000 new patients in Mechanicsburg.

This new stand-alone center is conveniently located at the recently installed traffic light on Walnut Bottom Road at Eastgate Drive; directly across from Member's First Federal Credit Union and beside the Cumberland County Historical Society's Two Mile House.

The grand opening event will be held on August 22, 2013, from 12PM-6PM. This is a come and go event appropriate for the whole family. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled with the Carlisle Chamber of Commerce at12PM. There will be games, food, tours, and the opportunity to meet our staff and emergency medicine physician owners.

AllBetterCare Urgent Care provides patients treatment for sudden or unexpected illnesses and injuries with no appointment ever needed. Instead of waiting days for a doctor's office appointment, or spending hours and thousands of dollars in an emergency department, AllBetterCare patients can expect to be seen, treated and typically released within an hour for "life's little emergencies" - and for a fraction of the price of the local hospital emergency room or "fast-track" department.

AllBetterCare Urgent Care is a full-service urgent care center, providing walk-in urgent care and occupational medicine services to regional businesses. Appointments aren't necessary and the clinics treat individuals of all age groups. AllBetterCare's patients can be treated for a wide array of conditions like fevers, asthma attacks, flu, upper respiratory infections, sprains, strains, cuts, broken bones, and burns. Their services are comprehensive and include digital x-rays, EKG's, on-site stat lab testing, a wide array of routine physical exams, immunizations, and occupational medicine/pre-employment services.

AllBetterCare is an independent physician-owned facility. The founders are emergency medicine residency trained physicians: Gregory Smolin, DO, FACEP; Rory O'Neill, DO; Marlys Pike, MD, FACEP, and Peter Kang, MD, FACEP who collectively have decades of experience in local emergency departments. As Dr. Pike states, "We created AllBetterCare to provide a completely different kind of healthcare experience. Coming from ER backgrounds, we wanted to provide quality care and convenient walk-in availability as an alternative to the ER for lower severity medical problems."

Both AllBetterCare Urgent Care Centers' are state-of-the-art medical facilities. Open 12 hours a day including evenings, weekends and almost all holidays. Most regional health insurance plans (other than Medicaid) are accepted, but not required. The new center, like all the others, will always be staffed by at least one on-site, board-certified physician and supported by a full medical team including physician assistants and certified radiology technicians.

AllBetterCare was the first urgent care center in Pennsylvania to be certified by the Urgent Care Association of America (UCAOA) and maintains that certification along with recent higher level certification by the American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine (AAUCM).