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Meet Urgent Care Aruba (UCA)

NOORD — It is your worst nightmare during a vacation, but if it happens
you’d better cure it as quickly and professional as possible. I am talking
about health issues that occur during your relaxing holidays and that
need immediate urgent attention. Where do you go on Aruba? Easy:
grab a cab for the short ride to Urgent Care Aruba (UCA) at the Noord
Medical Center and be attended prompt without schedule by highly
trained and experienced physicians.

For more than 28 years Dr. Carlos Yagua Sr. and his wife Dr. Noris Velas-
quez, have a practice on the island that runs with success and out of
that seed grew the first and only private Urgent Care Center. This on
initiative of their four children, all physicians, who wanted to create an
alternative to the crowded ER. Big and small health issues are being of-
fered a quick, reliable and efficient solution here under the direction of
Dr. Carlos Yagua Jr. who is general physician with a dual-master’s de-
gree in healthcare and business administration.

Taking Care
The people taking care of you in Urgent Care Aruba (UCA) are medi-
cal assistants and nurses who work in coordination with registered physi-
cians, all here to attend to your needs. There are ten consultation rooms
for patients, all furnished with the latest equipment like for example a
nursing station supplied for specific procedures, digital vitals’ monitors,
and green energy efficient white bright LED surgical lights, crash carts,
on-screen diagnostic systems, electrocardiograph (heart screening) and
ultrasound. The clinical laboratory is ISO 9001 Certified and ISO 15189 Ac-
credited, and UCA also offers point-of-care testing. Results are received
within minutes, allowing UCA to provide you with a reliable diagnosis.

Where, When and How
Open from Monday thru Friday 8am to 11pm, Saturday from 8am to
5pm, and is on call 24/7, English, Spanish, Dutch or Papiamento are spo-
ken by a medical professional and rates are low for self-pay patients. The
center accepts most major travel insurance plans. You can see actual
waiting times through a web-check in portal and you can book your ap-
pointment.

Location is at Noord Medical Center (Grey Building) at Noord 63. Phone:
+297-586-0448 or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/urgent-
carearuba/ q