Choosing people opens urgent care

UPPER DARBY – the moment seems perfect. Not long after several emergency closures of the hospital in the area, the urgent care of the people was opened in January 8510 Lansdne Ave. from UPPER DARBY.

Owned by two professionals in the medical field with a long -time experience, with roots and connections in Delaware County, urgent care is ideal for the busy lifestyle, when they have an urgent need, but they cannot receive an appointment with the primary doctor or with their doctor’s hours.

“I am very pleased to finally have the opportunity to bring back high quality drugs in the hometown in the new location in Darby Upper,” said an owner, Dr. Michael Whalen.

The choice of urgent care people will treat both adult and pediatric populations.

The new emergency care center has a room dedicated to pediatrics, from newborns to teenagers, as well as a specific procedure room, an orthopedic chamber, an X-ray car and laboratory on the spot, where the shootings can be read quickly during a patient’s visit or which will be sent to Labcorp.

Whelan and the other owner, DJ Bachovin certified medical assistant, worked together at Lansenau Medical Center for more than a decade. The colleagues not only became friends in those years, but shared a strong common interest and the desire to serve their community with the best possible medical care.

When the time has come for Whalen and Bachovin to realize their dream of opening an urgent care center in Delaware County, medical professionals have specifically chosen the superior location to complete the need between a normal visit and a trip to ER.

“After the Memorial Hospital of Delaware County and Springfield Hospital closed, the waiting time in the local ERI were longer than ever,” Bachovin said. “Our experience is among the most common/benign medical concerns for the greatest danger of life.”

“Our hope is to serve people, who feel they have nowhere to go, but ER, finding great care here and avoiding those long waiting times,” added Whelan.

The owners say that the major feature that will separate them from other urgent care centers is that the urgent care of the choice of people will be led exclusively by emergency drug providers. This means that they will be able to manage complex medical problems and will not have to return patients to the emergency room unless it is really indicated or justified in extreme cases.

The background of the dock

Whelan was born and grew up in Drexel Hill, like the second youngest of six brothers.

He went to Monsnior Bonner High School, where he played football for four years. He graduated from Penn State University in three years and went to the Medical School at Temple University, finishing and resident at Temple University, where he was awarded the most remarkable resident in 2013.

Whelan has practiced emergency medicine in Philadelphia over the past 15 years and has been recognized with the grant of the top dock of each of the last seven years. Whelan is a doctor participating in Lankenau Medical Center and deputy professor at the College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Medicine School of the University of Medicine Philadelphia.

Whelan is dedicated to education. He recently won the prize for the teaching of critical care in Lankenau and is the director of the medical assistant of emergency medicine.

In addition to its clinical duties, Whelan is specialized in emergency medical services and sports medicine. He is the director of EMS for several cities in Delaware County and is the medical director of the Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square. Although he grew up in a household of all the boys, Mike and his wife, Kristen, a originator from Havertown, have four daughters, under 6 years old.

In 2019, Whelan opened the original urgent care of people in Bensalem with Dr. Minh Bui.

Pa-c’s background

Dj Bachovin was born and grew up in Wilmington, where he attended the Concord High School.

After graduation, he continued at Virginia Tech, where he was trained as EMT and volunteered in the rescue team in Virginia Tech.

After graduating from the college, Bachovin began to apply to the assistant schools and worked as a technician in the emergency room at Springfield Hospital. Then followed Philadelphia University, now Thomas Jefferson East Falls Campus, where he studied to be a doctor.

Bachovin’s first job was at school was at Roxborough Memorial Hospital, while raising exchanges at the Einstein Medical Center, Elkins Park Emergency Department and the Lankenau Emergency Department.

Also, with a passion for education, Bachovin began teaching the course of the emergency medicine laboratory for nursing students at Philadelphia University.

He passed completely at the Lansenau Emergency Department in 2011 and became the main medical assistant of the department in 2015. During his time as a leadership, he co-founded the medical assistant scholarship to train a new graduate APS to competently practice emergency medicine.

Bachovin also served as a member of the Main Line Health colleagues’ review committee, sitting as an Emergency Medical Assistant Expert. The experienced nurse has also spent a few years, the light of the moon at a pediatric urgent care center and practicing both in the emergency and pediatric departments of the Chester County Hospital.

Bachovin lives in Delaware County with his wife, Nicole “Nikki” Bachovin, who is also the assistant of the certified doctor and their three daughters.

What to know

• Choosing urgent care people, 8510 Lansdowne Ave, Upper Darby

• open between 9:00 and 19:00 Monday to Friday; 9:00 – 16:00 Saturday; and 10:00 – 15:00 Sunday.

• For more information, call www.peopleschoiceuc.com.