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ack in 2004, there weren’t many urgent care facilities
in Metro Detroit. If your doctor’s office was closed, you
either had to wait until morning to make an appoint-
ment or go to the emergency department of a hospital.
Drs. Sanford Vieder and Lawrence Dell realized that offer-
ing high-quality, walk-in medical care during the evenings and
weekends would provide a needed service to the community
while also helping to prevent unnecessary and costly trips to
the emergency department.
“What I noticed years ago was that people came to the
emergency department not because they needed to be
there or that it was necessarily an emergency, but because
they often had limited choices and access to care,” said
Vieder, medical director of Lakes Urgent Care and chairman
and medical director of the Emergency Trauma Center at
Beaumont Hospital, Farmington Hills.
Lakes Urgent Care opened
on the first floor of the Lakes
Medical Building on Haggerty
Road in West Bloomfield in
August 2004. In September
2015, Lakes Urgent Care
opened its second location in
the Mendelson Professional
Building in Livonia. Unlike
some urgent care facilities,
both practices are staffed
with emergency medicine-
trained doctors who meet the
strict guidelines and criteria
to merit certification by the
Urgent Care Association of
ABOVE: Drs. Sanford Vieder and Lawrence Dell
America.
with student athlete Rachelle Willnus.
To celebrate the practice’s
13th anniversary, the doctors
are offering free sports or camp physicals every Thursday at
both locations as their mitzvah project. Visit lakesurgentcare.
com for details. The doctors stress that a sports physical is a
very basic checkup to determine your child’s ability to safely
participate in a sports or camp program. It should not replace
an annual comprehensive complete physical from your pri-
mary care physician or pediatrician.
“We came up with the mitzvah project of giving free sports
physicals every Thursday to try to give back to the communi-
ty,” said Dr. Lawrence Dell. “We also try to educate our young
student athletes about how they can compete on the field and
stay safe. We talk about how they can look for signs of poten-
tial head injuries and, more importantly, how to avoid them in
the first place.
“If a student athlete does incur an injury, we want him or
her to understand the importance of giving sufficient time
to heal and avoiding a second injury, which could have more
long-term implications. We offer the sports physical as a
screening and to complete the medical forms often required
for participation in athletic or camp activities.”
Practice manager Susan Simons said, “When we first
opened, we needed to find out what the public needed and
how to best serve them. We learned many physicians’ offices
will not take patients on the same day, on all days of the week
and are not open on weekends. We fill that gap for people.
We also know how important it is to work closely with each
patient’s primary care physician, and I think that makes us
special.” •