W.O.W. program explains urgent care services

Fallbrook Healthcare District's first Women of Wellness (W.O.W.) presentation, on April 2, featured Dr. Graydon Skeoch and Dr. Donald Kimes, the owners and operators of A+ Urgent Care, which opened that same day at 617 E. Alvarado St. They explained "Urgent Care vs. Emergency Care" to about 150 women and a few men.

Skeoch, who worked in the emergency room of Fallbrook Hospital from March 1995 until it closed on Dec. 20, 2014, said he found out that a community cannot have a freestanding emergency department without a hospital within 10 miles of it. So, he had been working with the healthcare d...