Have you ever been sick and needed a doctor/clinic while at WDW?

[edk35]

I was just curious as to where the closest urgent care is? I know years and years ago..we had to call 911 while staying at the Contemp. My daugher at the time was 3 and had an allergic reaction that spun up her asthma and we had to call. I am always soooooooo paranoid right before our trip or on our trip that someone is going to get sick. UGH

Denise

 

[phoebusII]

When we were there a few years ago, my two year old got some horrid bumps all over his thighs. They turned out to be insect bites, probably fire ants. In the information books that are in each hotel room, they post the number of a clinic. We called and they sent over a van, which drove us to a clinic about a mile outside DW. We saw a Dr. and got a prescription for some cream. They then drove us to the pharmacy and then directly to Epcot. I think if you need to go to a hospital, they may have a system set up for transportation there, too.

 

[Feralpeg]

There is a wonderful pediatric clinic that is open weekends and from 2pm until 11pm on week days. It is called Afterhours Pediatrics. It is in the strip mall at the corner of Conroy and Dr. Phillips. It is about a 15 minute drive from Disney property, but I believe it is worth the drive.

I took my DD there a week ago on a Saturday. They were great. They have little individual curtained treatment rooms. Each treatment room has an exam bed, rocking chair for Mom and a TV showing some type of animated feature. The nurses are extremely nice as was the doctor. They accept all types of insurance. I highly recommend them.

 

[BLBCB]

My niece got sick when my sister was at WDW. When they called the front desk, they were given the choice of a doctor coming to the resort, or them going to the clinic. The extra cost of the doctor coming to the hotel room was covered by their insurance, and the rest of the family could swim while my sister & niece relaxed in front of the TV. No added stress of waiting in a doctor's office for hours. It wasn't a life-threatening thing, but it was a severe ear infection. The doctor had even brought a supply of medications with him. It turned out they needed some different medication, but everything was handled by the front desk of the All Star Sports.

 

[chell]

My niece got sick when my sister was at WDW. When they called the front desk, they were given the choice of a doctor coming to the resort, or them going to the clinic. The extra cost of the doctor coming to the hotel room was covered by their insurance, and the rest of the family could swim while my sister & niece relaxed in front of the TV. No added stress of waiting in a doctor's office for hours. It wasn't a life-threatening thing, but it was a severe ear infection. The doctor had even brought a supply of medications with him. It turned out they needed some different medication, but everything was handled by the front desk of the All Star Sports.

Wow, that is great to know.

 

[bridegirl]

We have had positive experiences as well.

As terrible as it is to need medial care while on vacation, we have had the "in-room" doctor both at the GF and the YC, and it was very convenient. Both times they arranged to have the prescriptions we needed delivered to the hotel!

The one time we couldn't get the in room doctor, 12/30/99, WDW was over crowded for the big new year, my husband had a terrible flu and we were scheduled to sail on DCL in a few days. We went to the hospital at Celebration and received excellent medical care, although we did have to wait a bit to be seen.

 

[InstImpres]

There is an emergency clinic about 2 minutes outside of DTD. It also has Turner drug attached to it. Beware, Turner takes NO INSURANCE plans. They are also the recommend pharmacy that will deliver to your resort and convientiently charge the full cost on your room bill.

 

[Jamesbyr]

In February 2002, my nephew had an asthma attack and his parents took him to the onsite medical care place which was then on the map, up the road from DTD. They had no problems with insurance connections. Current postings seems to mention a place in Celebration.

 

[southjerseymom]

We got the in room doc for DD2 after a night of severe gastro illness. Would have been great service if she hadn't told us to go to emergency room. She thought DD was dehydrated. She had begun to take fluids w/o vomiting so it was a judgement call and I know you can't mess with dehydration and little ones. But bottom line I should have gone to a urgent care clinic. We waited 4 hours in Celebration Hospital and saw one person when we checked in. People vomiting all over the place and a car accident had backed up the ER. Again, it could have happened anywhere - but I finally took a cab back to WDW and let DD sleep. Total costs: $262 for in room doc (insurance paid $42) / $81 for emergency room (no insurance coverage because we checked out) / $631 to change flights to the next day on the all time rip off airline Spirit Air / additional $109 for extra night at WDW (went from BC to ***). As a parent you don't mind paying.....but I think the urgent care places would have been a better way to go. PS I originally called for urgent care address - front desk said they would send doc - was not given choice.

 

[Jamesbyr]

I will try to find out if the on-site place is still functioning.

 

[pearljim]

Approx 10 yrs ago, my DW got sick and eventually needed surgery. We were at Sand Lake hospital - same exit as Seaworld off of I4 but you go left. The doctors and staff were amazing. They indicated that 90% of their patients are transients (vacationers). We haven't been there in 10 years (thank goodness) but we received wonderful treatment and I expect they still offer the same.

 

[slduck]

When we were there in June, my dd had a croup attack. ALthough we had medication, we panicked. (She has had several in the past that have totally shut her breathing down and landed us in the hospital for days.) Anyway, the front desk gave us directions to the nearest hospital which was very easy to find. The docs and nurses were WONDERFUL. They worked quickly, and we even made it to the parks by noon.

This time we will get written directions when we arrive PLUS we are bring every type of medication we have!

 

[erikthewise]

In 2003, DW had a case of pinkeye at the very beginning of our trip. We were at the Swan and I went to the concierge desk early in the morning to ask for options, and was given a flier for East Coast Medical. They came to our room that same morning, and treatment was completed before noon! I could even take DS7 to Epcot while DW and DS10 waited in the room. It was expensive -- the total cost including medication was $200. I thought our insurance would pay some of it, but as it turned out there was a $250 annual deductible for out-of-network costs, so we got nothing! Even still it was incredibly convenient and worth the cost.

 

[dgaston]

DS then 15 needed to have stitches removed while we were in WDW in 2004. We used CentraCare, just to the left of Crossroads. We did wait a bit, but felt we received excellent care, and all I needed to pay was our usual $10 co-pay. Earlier in December 2003, my sister-in-law had to take my Nephew to a different CentraCare location where he was diagnosed with a double ear infection. She seemed pleased with their services too.

 

[PamNC]

I got a bad case of swimmer's ear and had to go to urgent care. I went to first aid at AK and a van came and took me a 2 other sickies to an urgent care facility on 192. It sucked - the night before we went to Cirque for the first time and I couldn't hardly hear it.

It didn't require a doctor's visit, but I got an awful rash this summer while we were there. Funny thing was that I saw tons of people walking around with the rash...and a woman at First Aid with the rash. They gave us Calagel which worked.

PamNC

 

[Buzz & Woody]

Our first trip with the kids was when our youngest was 10 months old. He was learing to pull himself up and did so using the door jam. He got his finger "pinched" in the metal part of the hinge and it was hanging my a thead. DH called the front desk, they suggested taking a van to the Clinic. I ran with him to the front and they called 911 instead. We were brought to the Celebration hospital-and the treatment there was amazing! Our insurace at home covered it. BUT we had to go to a clinic to get the dressing changed and I practically did everything myself and they charged almost $300.00 for the visit. That one had to go through our travel insurance and was harder to recover the money. He was on codiene for the rest of the trip-but doesn't remember a thing!

 

[krbq]

In 2003 DH fell ill while at WDW and I called the front desk at BWV for medical referrals. They gave me the name of a place that had a walk-in clinic or would send a doctor to the room, so we chose the in-room visit. The doctor came within 2 hours, at about 10 pm. He recommended going to the hospital and called an ambulance for us, explaining that the ambulance was from the Reedy Creek Fire Station and is there is no charge for Disney resort guests. Shortly after that call, the manager of the BWV showed up at our room and both he and the doctor stayed with us until the ambulance left for the hospital. DH was admitted at the Celebration Hospital and spent the next 6 nights in intensive care with pneumonia. It was a nightmare, but the folks at Disney were very helpful. We missed our flight home and I had to scramble to find another room the night after DH's discharge, and finally found one at the CR. Imagine my surprise to find that our luggage had been moved for us! Our insurance covered just about everything ($20K plus). Our only letdown was that the airline wasn't very sympathetic, but we only had to pay the extra $100 penalty since the fare hadn't changed. Admittedly, I didn't spend any time arguing with the airline because I had too many other details to deal with, but maybe if I had they'd have waived the penalty.

On another trip in 1988, DH became ill with some kind of gastro-intestinal illness and when we called the front desk a doctor was sent to the room. That time the doctor gave us medication and recommended bedrest for a day or 2, and DH was on his feet again in 24 hours. Insurance paid for that one, too. A few days later we had changed resorts and I got a phone call from a CM wanting to know how DH was feeling. I was so surprised that they had tracked us to the next resort.

 

[caveatlector]

I took my 3 year old daughter to the ER at Celebration hospital at 3am in Nov. 2004. She had the croup virus and her throat had swelled so much that she could barely breathe. We were staying at the Al-Stars Resort and the hospital is only about 5 minutes away, or less. They fixed her right up and she was fine very quickly after a few meds.

 

[jbird327]

I was seen at the Polynesian this past Jan by one of the services recommended by the front desk. The doctor was there within 3 hours and spent close to an hour in the room. He gave me an antibiotic and called in another prescription that was delivered. I paid up front and then submitted the bill to my insurance (who declined to pay- but that's another story).

 

[Sleeping~Beauty]

Just in October we had to use the CentraCare because my DS 2.5 had a fever. It's very close to the Liki Tiki Hotel (off site). We didn't have too long a wait, walking in at an off-time. A lot of people walked in after us, all vacationers with younger children.

It was very clean. We just paid our usual co-pay. The doctor was fine. And we got our prescription at Walgreen's.

Hopefully you won't have to worry about this.