Golden Valley Health Centers - Urgent Care - Merced (CA)

Mrs. Bueno 3 stars for the Night Shift doctors and Staff ONLY. 1 star rating for day shift Admissions and Triage nurses. The RN’s in Triage are so rude!!! If you are not having a heart attack, stroke, or homicide you are not considered an “emergency”. I’m here to say there are other illnesses in this world that constitute an emergency room visit. Illnesses you cannot see, illnesses that Merced maybe hasn’t heard of. It’s a shame. There’s one nurse in particular that thinks she’s tough and touches you to sit down when I asked if I can have a seat in the hallway because my neck needed wall support. She came outside put her hands on me and said “sit down, no, sit down you will not be going back there” she also took off my neck brace and threw it in the trash because I didn’t “need” it since I wasn’t there for a car accident, neck injury, etc…(Nurse Mercedes had given it to me for stability because I have neck issues that heighten during these flare ups). The RN was annoyed she gave it to me. Night shift I was met with so much compassion from the RN to the Doctor, Dr Bowes (sp?). To my surprise they took me back and kept me back there to treat me. He was such a blessing and listened to everything I had going on. I wish I got to RN’s name but she was so helpful and treated all her patients the same. Dr treated me the best he could until I was able to make it to SF. Morning Staff—I know you have tough patients but you should treat everyone as a decent human and not diagnose their condition rudely as anxiety when there’s so much more than anxiety. Learn about it and be humble! Front clerk: get an attitude check..you check people in there should be no reason for eye told, grunts, tones. I am a nice person, that had an emergency.

Dao the Eternal Nameless Beyond Thought Meditation/awareness is not pointed at here it seems, most the mental illness/drug addiction, etc if not all comes from "Ego" or materialist/physycalist conditioning most of the world suffers from. The psychiatric medications dont help much instead look into various "non-duality" meditation pointers, psychdelics and evidence based therapy but please do your research. It is work and nobody is here to do your work but you. Recommend a book "Loving What Is" by Byron Katie but there are many pointers as there are grains of sands in the universe,

Donna Matzenbacher Dr DeLaPena is by far the most caring Dr ever. He personally calls me at home. I’m comfortable with him and all his questions. He is very thorough and caring.

Val Fogelberg Ive been seeing Dr. Puray for over 2 years. Very professional and thorough. Never too busy to answer all my questions. Staff is terrific!

Samantha F I gave birth 4 days ago here and I had a really great experienced! I’d like to first acknowledge Stephanie. She was my nurse for my actual delivery and she was absolutely amazing! I had some complications and she made me feel so calm and like she was there specifically for me and to support me. She single handedly calmed my anxiety and fears regarding a lot of things, delivery being one of them. She coached me through delivery and pushing. Afterwards, in my most raw and vulnerable moments, she delicately cleaned me up. I cannot thank her enough. I had a few other nurses who were notably kind and supportive as well. Linda was one of them and she was soooo kind. I really appreciate her and everything she did for me postpartum. I’d also like to just show some love and appreciation to Dr. Johnston. I know he is technically his own practice, but he delivered my baby here. He came rushing in to deliver my daughter, and made sure she and I were both taken care of both before birth and after. He is really great at what he does and we are so so thankful for him. There was only 1 complaint I had, and that was the temperature of the postpartum rooms. They said they would send engineering to fix the thermostat after our room climbed up to 80 degrees. Engineering didn’t show and it just got so hot. We asked to be moved and they did oblige, however we were moved to another room that felt like the surface of the sun. lol. Aside from that, our care was top notch. Our care team was 95% amazing and we would definitely recommend to anyone looking to give birth.

Steven Segerstrom Great doctor. Approachable. State of the art wound management. Excellent results.

Jason Woodward I am very pleased with my Dr, I always get treated with such care. Dr.McCabe is one of the nicest guys I know and I highly recommend him. He cares very much for you.

Sharon Buchanan Wonderful efficient staff great dr Had endrocopy and colonoscopy and they were efficient and it went well thank you Dr uppal and staff!

Jm Hernandez Always attentive to my kiddo been going since she was 1..shes now 9..