Blood Work & Lab Testing in Davie & Plantation — Walk In, 7 Days

Both UrgentMed clinics draw and collect on site, seven days a week, with no appointment and no separate trip to a draw station. Rapid tests are run here and read before you leave; broader panels go to the reference laboratory and come back to a provider who reviews them and contacts you. You can come in because you have symptoms, because a form requires it, or simply because you want a panel drawn today.

Walk-in collection at both Broward clinics

• No appointment, no referral. Walk in and ask; the provider decides with you what is worth running.
• Collection on site — venous draw, finger stick, urine and swab specimens, all taken here.
• Rapid results during the visit for the tests that can be run here, with the provider explaining what they mean before you leave.
• Send-out panels to the reference laboratory — usually one to three days depending on the panel, with STAT turnaround available when the situation calls for it — reviewed by a provider and then discussed with you.
• Everything else in the same visit — examination, digital imaging and EKG are also on site, so one visit usually finishes the question.
• Copies where you want them — to your own physician, a specialist, a school or an employer, on your request.

Rapid tests read during your visit

These are run here and answered while you wait — which is the whole point of walking into an urgent care rather than being sent away and called back:

Rapid tests trade a little accuracy for speed. A negative rapid result early in an illness does not always settle the question, and where that matters the provider says so and sends a confirmatory test.

Panels and blood work that can be ordered here

• Complete blood count (CBC) — red cells, white cells and platelets; the general screen for infection, anaemia and inflammation.
• Basic and comprehensive metabolic panel (BMP / CMP) — electrolytes, kidney markers, liver enzymes and glucose.
• Lipid panel — total cholesterol, LDL, HDL and triglycerides.
• Thyroid function — TSH, with free T4 where the picture calls for it.
• Liver and kidney panels where a medication or a symptom makes them relevant.
• Iron studies, vitamin B12 and vitamin D for fatigue that has not been worked up.
• Inflammatory markers such as ESR and CRP.
• Urine culture when a specimen suggests it is warranted.
• Immunity titers for school, clinical placement and employment — see vaccines, titers and immunization records.
• Long-term glucose control is covered on the diabetes page, and confidential STD and STI testing has its own page and its own privacy handling.

If your requirement is tuberculosis screening specifically — a skin test, or the single-visit blood test — that has its own page: TB testing. If you need imaging as well as bloods for a form, both happen in the same visit.

Reasons people come in for a panel

How to prepare

• Fasting — needed for a true fasting lipid or glucose result: nothing but water for nine to twelve hours. Ask the front desk before you eat; many panels do not require it, and mornings are the easy slot if yours does.
• Drink water beforehand unless you have been told not to. It genuinely makes the draw quicker and easier.
• Bring your medication list, including supplements — several of them change results.
• Bring the order or form if a physician, school or employer specified the tests, so exactly what was asked for is what gets run.
• Bring previous results if you have them. A trend answers questions a single value cannot.
• Tell the staff if you have fainted at a draw before, or if one arm should be avoided. It changes how the draw is done, and it is a normal thing to say.

Getting your results

• Rapid tests — discussed with you during the visit, and treatment started at the same visit where it is indicated.
• Send-out panels — usually one to three days depending on which tests are run, and STAT turnaround is available for certain cases. Weekend results are available. Some specialised tests take longer, and you are told which yours is before you leave.
• A provider reviews every result before it is released, and abnormal findings are called rather than left to be discovered.
• You get a copy, and it goes to your own physician or specialist on request. Ask at check-in and it is set up then.

Results are personal health information. They are released to you, and to anyone else only with your authorization — with the exception of employer-ordered testing, where what the employer receives is agreed in advance and limited to what the program requires.

When to go to the emergency room instead

• Chest pain, severe difficulty breathing, or fainting.
• Heavy bleeding that will not stop.
• Severe abdominal pain with vomiting, or vomiting blood.
• Confusion, a very high temperature with shaking chills, or a rash that does not fade under pressure.
• Any symptom that feels like an emergency — call 911 rather than waiting for a test result.

Urgent care is for problems that need attention today but are not life-threatening. If you think you may be having an emergency, call 911 — do not drive yourself.

Walk in at either Broward clinic

Both clinics are open seven days a week — Davie at 5149 S University Drive (Renaissance Plaza, just off I-595) and Plantation at 10199 Cleary Boulevard, Suite 10 — serving Davie, Plantation, Cooper City, Weston, Sunrise, Southwest Ranches, Pembroke Pines, Fort Lauderdale and the surrounding Broward County communities. Hours, maps and parking, or hold your place online before you come in.

Insurance and self-pay

Most major plans are accepted, along with workers’ compensation and auto (PIP) claims. Self-pay is itemized so you pay only for the tests that are run, and the front desk quotes the price before you are seen. Employer-ordered testing is billed to the employer account. Plans and payment.