Novant Health-GoHealth Urgent Care Adds 11th Charlotte Location with New Center in Mountain Island

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – GoHealth Urgent Care, one of the country’s largest and fastest growing urgent care companies, together with its partner Novant Health, one of the nation’s most innovative and integrated care delivery health systems, announced the opening of its eleventh center in Charlotte and eighteenth Novant Health-GoHealth Urgent Care in the state. The center will offer another Charlotte community the convenient, personalized and affordable urgent care, combined with consumer-focused digital technology and trusted, world-class healthcare providers that Novant Health-GoHealth Urgent Care centers have become well known for.

The new center will be located in Mountain Island, at 3500 Mt. Holly-Huntersville Rd., Suite B and is set to open on August 31, 2020.

Consistent with Novant Health-GoHealth Urgent Care’s entire network, patients will have the option to save their spot online for an in-center visit or schedule a Video Visit with a Novant Health-GoHealth Urgent Care provider at /nc. Video Visits are a quick and effortless way for patients to access local in-center medical providers from the safety and comfort of their homes, and are available for both non-COVID and COVID-19 related issues. Novant Health-GoHealth Urgent Care treats adults and children six-months and older for non-life-threatening illnesses and injuries, such as flu, fever, asthma, allergies, minor cuts and burns, pink eye, urinary tract infections, sports injuries, fractures, sprains and strains, and more. COVID-19 diagnostic testing, as well as antibody testing is also available at most centers.

“We are thrilled to expand our care to the Mountain Island community,” said Kirsten Jones, North Carolina market president for GoHealth Urgent Care. “This new center increases the number of convenient access points we have established to care for patients during these difficult times, whether for COVID-19-related issues or typical urgent care needs. The combination of our physical sites and seamless virtual visits has been very well received by our North Carolina communities.”

“Novant Health is a people first organization, and working together with GoHealth Urgent Care to broaden the reach of quality healthcare is the kind of achievement we continue to pursue for the benefit of the communities we serve,” said Saad Ehtisham, president of the Novant Health greater Charlotte market. “Aside from knowing that the Mountain Island community has access to top-tier medical providers and personalized care, either in-house or virtually, it’s also gratifying to offer such a broad range of medical services that meet all needs, and reinforces our commitment to enhance the patient experience at every level.”

All Novant Health-GoHealth Urgent Care centers are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, including holidays. We are in-network with most major insurance plans. For patients without health insurance, we offer affordable self-pay rates. Learn more about the conditions we treat, save your spot, pre-register, and view a full list of in-network insurance plans by visiting us online at /nc.

About GoHealth Urgent Care

GoHealth Urgent Care is one of the country’s fastest-growing, largest and most technology-forward urgent care companies. At GoHealth Urgent Care, we provide unparalleled experiences that are effortless, personal and connected through partnerships with market-leading health systems and our communities as a whole. GoHealth Urgent Care operates approximately 150 urgent care centers in the greater New York metropolitan area, the Portland, Oregon-Vancouver, Washington metropolitan area, the San Francisco Bay Area, Hartford and South Eastern Connecticut, Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina, St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Northwest Arkansas and Delaware. GoHealth Urgent Care is a TPG Growth portfolio company, the middle market and growth equity investment platform of TPG, which has more than $103 billion of assets under management.

About Novant Health

Novant Health is an integrated network of physician clinics, outpatient facilities and hospitals that delivers a seamless and convenient healthcare experience to communities in Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. The Novant Health network consists of more than 1,600 physicians and over 29,000 employees that provide care at nearly 700 locations, including 15 hospitals and hundreds of outpatient facilities and physician clinics. In 2020, Novant Health was the only healthcare system in North Carolina to be included on Forbes' Best Employers for Diversity list. Diversity MBA Magazine has also ranked Novant Health third on its 2019 list of "Best Places for Women & Diverse Managers to Work." Novant Health provided more than $993.2 million in community benefit, including financial assistance and services, in 2019. For more information, please visit our website at NovantHealth.org.