Introducing…On My Way!

On My Way from MyChart is a convenient new online tool that allows you to reserve your place in line at our Truckee, Tahoe City, or Olympic Valley Urgent Care clinics later today or tomorrow.

Here when you need us.

Our Truckee and Tahoe City urgent care clinics are open everyday 8 a.m. – 6 p.m., and our Olympic Valley (Palisades Tahoe) urgent clinic is open everyday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. during ski season!

Visit an urgent care clinic with an injury or illness that is not life threatening* but requires treatment within 24 hours. Urgent care offers a high level of service, including ready staff and onsite diagnostic services, such as x-ray and lab testing.

While treatment at an urgent care clinic is less expensive than a trip to the emergency room, it is more expensive than seeing a primary care provider. Learn more about the different types of care available in the Tahoe Forest Health System.

Patients without insurance should be prepared to pay with cash or credit card at the time of service.

Urgent Care Bridges the Gap Between Emergency and Health Needs

Urgent care handles mild to moderate issues that can’t wait but aren’t life-threatening, bridging the gap between emergency room visits and routine care.

I’m Dr. David Lemak. I’m an Emergency Physician by training and currently am the medical director at Tahoe Forest Urgent Care System. Roughly 25% of the population has been to an urgent care in the past 12 months.

One of the things that we do very well in Urgent Care is take care of folks with mild to moderate problems. It’s a well-recognized resource in the healthcare system. Part of the reason why Urgent Care has developed as rapidly as it has correlates with the difficulty in getting a rapid appointment with the primary care provider for something that can’t wait for a few weeks. We fill the gap between emergent care, which is where you have someone with a potentially life-threatening problem, and something that can wait for two or three weeks to be managed on a more casual basis by the primary care provider.

So, kinds of things that one would expect to go to urgent care for would be mild infections. We see folks all the time with strep, with flu, with gastroenteritis. Injuries that are more related to overuse, like Achilles tendonitis from doing too much one weekend, to back strains, to fractures. Not necessarily fractures that are severe and need the emergency department, but ones that slip and fall and crack a bone in the wrist or twist an ankle, etc.

Our nurses have developed a program that helps them identify people with potentially life-threatening problems, rapidly get them evaluated, and a provider makes the arrangements to get them transferred over to the emergency department.

I’m Dr. Dave Lemak. Thanks very much for listening about Urgent Care. I hope you don’t have to visit us, but we’re happy to see you when you get there.

Find Us

  • Urgent Care – Truckee

    10956 Donner Pass Road, Ste 110
    Truckee, CA 96161
    Across from Tahoe Forest Hospital

  • Urgent Care – Tahoe City

    925 North Lake Blvd., Suite B, lower level
    Across from Safeway in the Trading Post Center
    Tahoe City, CA 96145

    • Everyday, 8am – 6pm

  • Urgent Care – Olympic Valley

    1885 Village South Rd
    Olympic Valley, CA
    At the base of Palisades Tahoe, east of the ticket office and Funitel

    Directions (From Truckee or Tahoe City):

    • Take Hwy 89 and turn onto Squaw Valley Rd (big Olympic rings/sign at entrance)
    • Continue on Squaw Valley Rd for 2 miles
    • Turn Left onto Village East Rd
    • Turn Right on Village South Rd follow to the end of the road
    • The clinic is at the end of the road/top of the cul-de-sac; clinic parking is to the right

    • Open during ski season only
      November – April, Everyday, 9am – 5pm

*If you experience a life threatening injury or illness, including fever in a newborn less than 3 months old, go to an Emergency Department immediately or dial 911.