Heywood Urgent Care Center
Monday - Friday: 8 am - 7:30 pm / Saturday & Sunday: 9 am - 4:30 pm
Closed on the following holidays: New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.
We are open 9 am - 4:30 pm on the following holidays: President's Day, Patriot's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July and Labor Day.
Heywood Urgent Care is located at 266 Main Street, Gardner, MA. For more information, please contact (978) 669-5959.
Heywood Healthcare is committed to providing high-quality, convenient and affordable medical treatment to the North Central and North Quabbin communities. The new center offers walk-in treatment for everyday illness and injury, including cuts, sprains, fever, sore throats, ear aches and cold symptoms, with no appointment required.
Heywood Urgent Care, a service of Heywood Medical Group, offers an experienced staff of physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants seven days-a-week to provide quality care and convenience.
What Care is Right for Me?
| Primary Care | Urgent/Walk-In Care | Emergency Care |
| Acute illness (sinus infections, rash, upper respiratory infections, pink eye) | Acute illness (sinus infections, rash, pink eye) | Abdominal pain (sudden or severe) |
| Annual physicals | Allergic reactions (Mild, non-life threatening) |
Blood clot concerns |
| Checkups – well child | Broken bones or minor fracture | Choking |
| Chronic pain | Insect bites, minor animal or human bites (no concern for rabies) |
Dehydration |
| Depression/anxiety (Ongoing, non-life threatening psychological concerns and medications) |
Mild asthma or COPD exacerbations | Diabetic emergencies |
| Follow-up care after Emergency Room visit | Mild-moderate back pain or injury | Fever – elderly or young children (under 6 months) |
| Follow-up care Urgent Care visit | Minor burns | Head pain (sudden or severe) |
| Medicare wellness exams | Minor gastrointestinal problems (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea) | Heart attack symptoms (severe chest/jaw/mid back pain, sweating, shortness of breath) |
| Medication refills | Minor head injuries with no loss of consciousness | Loss of consciousness (with/without head injury) |
| Pap smears | Minor lacerations, contusions, abrasions | Open fractures |
| Persistent cold symptoms | Skin infections and rashes | Severe lacerations (cuts) |
| Persistent orthopedic injury or pain | Sprains/Strains | Severe pain |
| Preventative care | Upper respiratory problems (sore throat, earache, sinus symptoms, fever) | Severe shortness of breath asthma/COPD exacerbations |
| Return to work/school clearance after initial injury/illness evaluation | Urinary tract infections | Sudden vision changes or severe eye pain |
| Routine immunizations | Suicidal or homicidal thoughts or plans | |
| Wart removals | Stroke symptoms (sudden dizziness, weakness, numbness, loss of coordination, word slurring, balance, or vision problems) | |
| Trauma (Motor vehicle/pedestrian or vehicle/bicycle injuries or accidents, falls of more than 10 feet, multisystem injuries) |
Go directly to the Emergency Room or call 9-1-1 for serious illness, chest pain or pressure, difficulty breathing, suspected stroke, severely broken or severed limbs, unconsciousness, convulsions or seizures, severe bleeding, poisoning, burns or any life threatening emergency.
