2023 Medical Profile: Patients First Tallahassee
James Yost, MD, MS, MBA, Chief Medical Officer
When you’re in pain, the experience of going to an urgent care should not cause further pain and strain. Since 1989, Patients First has provided convenient and affordable care for those seeking an alternative to the emergency room.
The practice’s motto, “Get in. Get out. Get better.” emphasizes the staff’s desire to treat patients effectively and efficiently by providing readily available appointments, exemplary care and thorough treatment plans.
Getting in and out is easily achieved with eight walk-in clinics throughout the Tallahassee area including Appleyard, Bucklake, Crawfordville, Lake Ella, Mahan, North Monroe, Tennessee Street and Thomasville Road.
Most of these clinics are open seven days a week, nearly every day of the year, with extended hours. More locations are expected to open in the coming year.
James Yost, MD, MS, MBA, Chief Medical Officer
“Patients First intends to be Tallahassee’s go-to choice for urgent care,” said James Yost, chief medical officer of Patients First. “We invest in each community we are in by being evidence based, listening to each patient and investing in quality providers.”
Yost states that Patients First’s success all begins with the provider life cycle. Each hired physician is rigorously screened and undergoes a detailed onboarding process to guarantee they align with the company’s policies, procedures and evidence-based medical practices, and also that they exhibit a positive bedside manner, demonstrating interactions that are caring and courteous.
Each urgent care location offers treatment of minor illness, flu, COVID-19 testing and treatment, injury, minor surgical procedures, stitches, treatment of broken bones, physicals, diagnostic testing, telehealth visits and more.
The providers can handle non-life-threatening, non-medical emergencies and have lab and X-ray capabilities on-site. Should further treatment be needed, they are able to provide referrals to doctors who can best assist the medical issue.
“We have a robust medical leadership structure with high expectations that trickle down to the patients so they know they are truly first, being treated by caring, compliant and compassionate people who we have hired from their own community,” said Yost.
Patients First Tallahassee
(850) URGENT-1 | patientsfirst.com
