Business Profile: Pulse-MD Urgent Care, Mahopac, Mohegan Lake
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Hopewell Junction resident Dr. Faisal Ashraf is helping to provide an alternative to a hospital emergency room for individuals who have a minor illness or injury through his family-owned business.
Pulse-MD Urgent Care opened its original location in Wappinger Falls in 2011; started its second facility in Mahopac in 2013; and in November 2015 opened in Mohegan Lake on Route 6.
All three Pulse-MD offices are open every day from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Ashraf, administrative director and chief operating officer of Pulse-MD Urgent Care, said last week he and his family decided to open in Mohegan Lake because, “We thought there was a great need in the community. There was no urgent care in this area.”
“It’s walk-in medical care,” Ashraf said. “We treat everything from cuts to broken bones to colds, flues, sprains. We have an on-site lab. We have an on-site X-ray.”
“We really pride ourselves in saying that we are a step below the emergency room, but a step above a regular doctor’s office,” he continued. “I say that because our scope is very wide. We treat pediatrics as well as adults and even geriatrics. There’s a lot of things that we can treat at the urgent care that could avoid a costly visit at the emergency room.”
Urgent care facilities are experiencing a financially boom nationally, Ashraf said. “People are finding the value” of using urgent care rather than going to an emergency room, he said. “Time is money. So you can come in at your own convenience.”
“You can really bring your whole family” to Pulse-MD and they can be treated in one visit, Ashraf said. “We’ve seen a tremendous amount of growth.”
Another advantage to his facilities is being able to take tests and patients can receive the results in as little as 10 minutes, Ashraf said.
Ashraf has devoted his career in health care to administration. “I always had that entrepreneurial spirit,” he said, noting that some of his family members were businesspeople.
Pulse-MD’s Mohegan Lake facility on Route 6 is located in the site of a former dentist office. Most of the patients come from Cortlandt, Yorktown, Peekskill and Putnam Valley, Ashraf said. “When we opened in November we got thanks and praise from the community,” he said.
Urgent care facilities are a positive force for health care in America, Ashraf said.
“We don’t want to overburden the already burdened emergency rooms with things that can be treated at an urgent care center,” he said. “We want the emergency rooms to be focused on people who are having a heart attack, people who are having something life-threatening.”
Ashraf said his patients like the fact that his facility is family-owned and people know its doctors and administrators. “We’re not corporate. We’re not owned by a hospital,” Ashraf said. “We’re approachable by the local communities.’
The Pulse-MD facility in Mahopac is located at 572 Route 6 and can be reached by calling 845-621-3100 and its Mohegan Lake office is located at 3244 E. Main St. (Route 6) and can be reached by calling 845-204-9258. For more information, visit http://pulse-mdurgentcare.com.
