CLEVELAND — University Hospitals announced it has opened a new urgent care location in Cleveland's Edgewater Neighborhood on Monday.

The facility is at 1407 W. 117th on the corner of Detroit Avenue, and it'll be open seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. There are special hours on holidays. 

UH said the goal of opening this new facility is to reduce the time it takes for residents to seek medical attention. This location was placed specifically on the mass transit bus route and between the border of Lakewood and the Edgewater neighborhood near the Clifton Boulevard retail area. 

Services include x-rays, labs, EKGs, medication dispensing and more. 

“Our UH Urgent Care delivery model aims to provide the most convenient and valuable care for our patients,” said UH Chief Operating Officer Dr. Paul Hinchey in a release.“Having easy access to urgent care locations provide a more affordable option than emergency departments for patients who don’t have a primary care physician but need immediate, non-life-threating medical attention. By offering more urgent care locations, we can relieve the burden on emergency departments and reduce wait times so our emergency medicine teams can focus on critical cases.”

This location marks the 24th UH urgent care facility in northeast Ohio.