AtlantiCare Cuts Ribbon on Barnegat Urgent Care Center

For Immediate Release: May 24, 2023

Site to expand access to care for those who live, work in and visit Barnegat and Ocean County and beyond

It’s official! AtlantiCare is opening another Urgent Care Center (UCC) just before Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start to summer! Located at 912 West Bay Avenue in the Barnegat Village Square shopping center, it will open to the community May 25. AtlantiCare representatives, Barnegat Mayor Pasquale “Pat” Pipi, and other officials cut the ribbon to celebrate the new location May 23. The center, AtlantiCare’s 12^th urgent care site serving southeastern New Jersey, will be open seven days a week from 8:30 AM to 8 PM daily to treat non-life-threatening illnesses and injuries.

The AtlantiCare UCC Barnegat team will include a board-certified provider (physician or advance practice nurse), a registered nurse, a radiologic technologist and a customer service representative. Services they’ll offer include x-rays, some on-site lab tests, stitches, wound care, minor eye injuries, foreign body removal and more. Illnesses the team will diagnose and treat include colds, strep throat, allergies and other upper respiratory tract illnesses. Injuries they will diagnose and treat include strains, sprains, broken bones, cuts and more. AtlantiCare UCC Barnegat will also send prescriptions to patients’ pharmacies electronically, to make it easy and efficient for patients to pick up prescriptions.

“It’s a privilege for our team to care for patients when and where they need it,” said Ted Fog, D.O., medical director, AtlantiCare Physician Group Primary and Urgent Care. “They might have a sprain from a soccer game, a sore throat that family members are ‘gifting each other’, or one of those – ‘I can’t believe I hurt myself do that’ injuries.” Fog said AtlantiCare Urgent Care centers had 200,000 patient visits in 2022.

“AtlantiCare Urgent Care Barnegat features soothing, coastal colors and artwork by New Jersey artists as part of our Foundation’s Healing Arts Program,” said Fog. “We designed every feature of the center with patients, families and our care team in mind.”

Visit www.atlanticare.org/holdmyspot to see wait times and/or check into AtlantiCare Urgent Care locations from home, work, the beach or wherever you are.

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AtlantiCare is an integrated healthcare system based in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, whose more than 6,000 staff, providers and volunteers serve the community in more than 100 locations in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May and Ocean counties of southern New Jersey. Its vision of building healthy communities together drives its mission of making a difference in health and healing, one person at a time, through caring and trusting relationships. A Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner, AtlantiCare was also included in Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work. AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center was the 105th hospital in the nation to attain the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet™ designation in 2004 and earned redesignation in 2008, 2013, 2018, and 2023. Learn more at atlanticare.org or


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