Walk-In Care Center On Cape Closes For Good

BARNSTABLE, MA — Cape Cod Healthcare has permanently closed the urgent care center it operated each summer in the village of Osterville and will no longer treat walk-in patients there.

Since 2021, the clinic at 770 Main St. had provided services for minor illnesses and injuries, from May to September, seven days a week.

But demand for care at the Osterville location is low, Hyannis-based CCHC said in a statement Monday. So the health care network plans to move its orthopedic surgery practice to the urgent care site.

The center had been staffed by temporary workers in previous summers. Employees who planned to return to Osterville this year have been offered work at other CCHC urgent care centers, a spokesperson told Patch.

Cape Cod Healthcare runs a half dozen other centers on the peninsula. They include a clinic 6 miles away in Hyannis and one in Sandwich that’s 10 miles from the closed site. Those centers should be able to handle the patient volume from Osterville, CCHC said.

Cape Cod Healthcare Orthopedic Surgery will move into the location next month. A new practice, Cape Cod Healthcare Plastic, Reconstructive & Hand Surgery, will take over the orthopedic site at 1220 Iyannough Road, Hyannis, in June.

With about 5,000 employees and 600 providers, the health care network includes Cape Cod Hospital, Falmouth Hospital and numerous practices and services.

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