New Lake Bluff-area health center offers area residents ‘an alternative to waiting in an emergency room’ – Chicago Tribune

The area has a new medical-care option with the recently opened Northwestern Medicine Lake Bluff Comprehensive Health Center.

The 10,000-square-foot facility opened its doors at 525 Rockland Road in Knollwood, the unincorporated area adjacent to Lake Bluff. Both Northwestern Medical Group emergency and family doctors will work at the center, as they will continue to serve at the nearby Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital.

This center was built from the ground up to specifically better serve our local patients, and offering those with nonemergency health conditions, but who promptly need to see a health care professional, an alternative to waiting in an emergency room, Lake Forest Hospital President Marsha Oberrieder said in a statement.

Director of operations Robin Zacher said there is on-site imaging allowing for X-rays, along with a laboratory.

It takes us to a higher level of immediate care access, she said.

Next to the immediate care clinic will be a family physician center, where people can go for needs such as annual checkups and routine screenings for both adults and children.

The clinic is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, and Zacher said the hope is to eventually have seven-day-a-week service.

Also envisioned for the future is drive-up access for COVID-19 testing, plus a social work component to the facility.

Zacher adds the Lake Bluff area location will be closer for local residents as Northwesterns two closest immediate care clinics are in Vernon Hills and Gurnee.

This will be another area entry into the immediate care market as NorthShore University HealthSystem already operates a facility at 71 Waukegan Road.

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New Lake Bluff-area health center offers area residents 'an alternative to waiting in an emergency room' - Chicago Tribune