CVS Minute Clinic

Nobody at a desk to ask questions to. Long wait. No price list available. Finally while waiting more than an hour for a simple TB skin test Googled price for the test and it was something like $ 45 for the test and another $ 25 to «read» the test. So I left because I was still waiting anyway. They need to change the name from «minute clinic» to «you are going to be waiting a long time for the most simple of procedures» clinic. Or «you are going to get price gouged clinic»

Me and the hubby were seen within 45min. In and out with our rx so that was good. The student was nice and helpful the md has poor beside manner… but again in and our with all our testing ect. Clean office and semi-​clean cvs.

Let me first say, that I am a registered nurse and come here because its typically pretty quick to get my TB skin test done in between my nursing contracts. Let me also preface this by saying that I have read TB skin tests in the past and one of the Nurse Practitioners should no longer be allowed to read these tests without additional education regarding TB Skin tests.
I have been getting TB skin tests, at least yearly, for 5 or 6 years. I know what a positive versus negative result is an looks like, she does not. She does not know what an area of induration is despite me reading it to her verbatim from the CDC website. I argued with her and then gave up, because she wouldn’t budge. She looked unsure of herself, she hesitated when she had to write down the mm of induration, and had to also look up the information. If she was unsure she should have asked for a second opinion, not guess.
The theory of minute clinics are awesome and helpful for people like me. But if you have new grad Nurse Practitioners with zero experience running a clinic, they are going to have a difficult time with more experienced nurses coming in who know what they are talking about.
My problem is that this young lady shouldn’t be reading TB tests, that have a pretty significant impact on people’s work and livelihood, is she does not know what she is doing. She needs to use her resources in order to make good decisions.

Rude and didn’t want to bother with me even though I waited over 30 minutes. I arrived about 6:40pm. They close at 7:30pm. The kiosk wouldn’t allow me to sign up because there were two people ahead of me. That’s fine, I understand that. I called my insurance to see if they had other urgent care clinics open now and as I was waiting on the phone with them, the guy ahead of me left his place in line. Left the store. So that meant there was no one ahead of me once she was done with the current patient. So I waited patiently while she cleaned the room after the last patient. It was 7:15 by the time she came out and we spoke. I informed her the guy ahead of me had left. She was annoyed I was even asking anything and she told me she had to call and confirm he wasn’t coming back. I said ok then can you do that? She said no, because I can’t see anyone new after 7:15. Hmmm so I just waited for over 30 minutes (well before 7:15pm) and a guy LEFT CVS around 7:00pm and did not return (well before 7:15pm) and you can’t see me and give me a simple strep throat rapid test which would take 60 seconds. And now the nice woman on the phone tells me other urgent care clinics around are closing at 8:00pm so I won’t be able to make it to any of them before 8:00pm. Rude, uncaring, unprofessional. First time trying a pharmacy clinic and last. And they are not medical doctors.

I had the best experience.
I have Kaiser insurance and can’t appreciate the wait times, appointment scheduling or services available to me. The One Minute Clinic was recommended to me in passing and thought I would try it out. I checked in at a kiosk and saw a practitioner within minutes. My practitioner was professional and nice, she resolved my issue, I paid her and I left. It was so simple and effective. I didn’t miss work, stress out about time or wait for an extended amount of time. Thank you Minute Clinic!

I felt terrible, my nose was all stuffed up, I couldn’t breathe, I was coughing and coughing… and I was two thousand miles from home.
So I went on Google and found this CVS Minute Clinic. It’s located inside the CVS, next to the pharmacy. I showed up expecting to wait an hour or two or even more. The nurse practitioner, Carol, said her next appointment was a no-​show, so she could see me immediately. (I definitely lucked out, as a lot of the criticism here is about the wait times.)
After I filled out the touch screen form, Carol spent about 20 minutes taking my history, asking questions and examining me. She was professional and thorough. She concluded my infection was bacterial (it’s a green thing) and wrote a prescription for an antibiotic, which she handed to the CVS pharmacist. Ten minutes later, I walked out antibiotic in hand.
I have good insurance, so CVS billed my insurance company. I was only out-​of-​pocket $ 7 for the antibiotic. It’s one week later now, and I’m almost completely recovered.

The doctor was great and helped me with everything I needed, but I had problems with my health insurance because I just moved states. So the Minute Clinic charged my debit card the full cost of the visit. I waited on hold for 30 minutes to talk to someone who told me its in the small print when I signed for the copay. I told her this was sneaky and they should have told me, she basically said I was SOL.

After a recent visit to this place I am more grateful than ever that I have some quality medical insurance…
On NYE I came down with a nasty cough that I couldn’t shake and getting into see my normal doctor during holiday hours wasn’t possible — they tried but the entire staff seemed to be taking some r&r. Enter, Minute Clinic. They had someone on the clock and check in was a breeze seeing that I was the only one there at the time. The doctor got me in the exam room in about 5 minutes, started asking questions, took my vitals and diagnosed me with bronchitis. My insurance didn’t cover it but at $ 99 I was happy just to know what was wrong and to get on the road to recovery. Well, that’s where things went wrong…
After a visit with my normal doctor a few days later for good measure, he was shocked to see that I was diagnosed correctly but given nothing to cure me. The meds prescribed weren’t harmful in any way but were all wrong and my health had digressed to the point where I was bordering on walking pneumonia. I was quickly given the «big guns» and sent on my way to heal properly.
Five stars for convenience, but minus two for mild incompetency.

I waited 30 minutes… Just for the doctor to come out post a sign that said he would be going on our lunch then turned to me and say «I’ll be with you in approximately an hour and a half.» I told him I had already been waiting 30 minutes. He said «sorry it’s posted» and pointed to the sign that he had just put up… Well I’m sorry you are a «doctor» and are working in a CVS minute clinic… Or should we call that «120 minute (s) clinic?!»

Let me first start off by saying that I have NEVER EVER given anyone a bad review before– EVER! Not on Unilocal,not in a survey! My mom taught me if I don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. And that is a mantra I have lived by until this awful experience at Minute Clinic– I speak up now because you need to know about this situation so it never happens again!
Although the nurse was nice and she followed the obviously straightforward protocol, I was misdiagnosed because of a false positive strep screen. Clearly this was not her fault as even the subsequent lab test came back negative; however clinicians should learn about false negative rates of these tests and learn to defer to clinical judgement. I CLEARLY had a SEVERE case of strep by the time I saw my PCP the next day (who by the way said those tests are garbage and she doesn’t even use them because she has gotten so many false negatives using them). By the time I saw my PCP the next day I was in SEVERE pain and nearly had to go to the ER the night before because I declined so rapidly and my fever spiked to 103. Not only was the nurse unable to recognize a clear case of strep, she prescribed for me decongestants even though I had NO congestion at all and a lidocaine gargle which made me gag and cut my already painful throat up so bad that I was spitting up blood all night! For this reason I will never refer a friend or family member to Minute clinic for anything serious– only for simple routine procedures such as a flu or tetanus shot.
Not only that, I will NEVER use CVS pharmacy again because while processing my Rx with the pharmacy staff I suddenly became extremely dizzy, nauseated, and light headed and I told the lady at the counter who was helping me that I was really dizzy and couldn’t even see her or hear her– I vaguely heard her ask very nonchalantly– almost totally disregarding me– if I wanted her to call an ambulance before I lost consciousness– NO ONE DID ANYTHING TO HELP ME! When I came to, the staff person had simply moved to the next register and was helping someone else!!! I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT! The whole staff treated me like I had the plague! No one helped me to a seat or asked me if I was ok or ANYTHING– they just let me be unconscious at the freaking register!!! Thank God I merely put my head down before losing consciousness and didn’t hit the floor! When I came to I threw up– luckily someone at least got me a bag! Then I lost consciousness again! The pharmacist expedited my RX, so it was ready before I regained consciousness the second time, but they still made me wait in line behind 5 other people– people who clearly didn’t want me anywhere near them and I couldn’t blame them! The staff treated me like I had the plague– and I felt like I did!- and the other patrons didn’t want me any where near them either, understandably so! There was a nurse right there in the clinic! Why didn’t someone get her to help me? Or call an ambulance? Or just help me to a seat, or at least push me to the front of the line so I could pay for my RX and get home to bed! I guarantee you none of the other customers would have minded letting me cut in line to get me out of there as soon as possible– so why didn’t anyone just get me the F out of there? I was too disoriented to know even do anything about it. I am so disappointed in how the pharmacy staff treated me I will NEVER return to CVS!

I needed some vaccinations before going abroad. Although I was supposed to get them at least 30 days prior to leaving, it was now t-​minus 15 days because I was lazy for three months. Well, better late than never I thought, and said as much to a pharm friend. He just shook his head.
This Minute Clinic in Point Loma was no joke. After signing in at the touch screen (a conspicuously large bottle of alcohol hand sanitizer sat next to it), I only had to wait a few minutes before a door opened and my name was called. My nurse practitioner looked like he was in charge of a battlefield triage unit. I had scarcely answered some of his questions before he brought out the vaccines and double checked the syringes. Two in one shoulder, one in the other and I was done. He wished me a good trip and handed me a CVS coupon as I walked out to boot. You can’t go wrong with quick and professional service like this.

Once I was in the «minute clinic» it wasn’t bad, but getting in takes anything but «a minute». You can’t make appointments, check wait times or sign in ahead of time online or over the phone. You basically just show up and hope there isn’t a line. If you could sign in ahead of time that would be one thing, but the CVS store itself is gross and there are only three chairs to sit in, so you end up hanging out within ear shot (they call your name and if you miss your turn, you miss it) looking at compression socks and cheap recliner chairs. Cost was semi-​cheap and as long as you are not trying to use your insurance or Medicaid (it took 20 minutes to verify the lady next to me’s Medicaid coverage) once you are in it isn’t too bad.

I signed in at 9:00. The practitioner got there at 8:55. I got an alert at 9:07 and she didn’t open the door til 9:20. She said she had to get things organized. It’s an 8×8 room with 2 machines, what’s to organize? She diagnosed me with a viral infection. I told her the only thing that has worked in the past was the z-​pack. She said they no longer made it, which I now know is a lie. She also claimed it was nothing more than a placebo. She instead gave me some prescript cough med and said if it doesn’t get better by Tuesday she’d give me better antibiotics. So instead of helping me immediately she made me suffer for 3 days because of her personal belief system of weening people from antibiotics. And no they never called to check back in with me as she said she would when she was up-​selling her level of care. I wouldn’t go back to this self serving b if my leg were severed in her parking lot. I would hop to the nearest homeless person as I am sure they are more compassionate than she is. My real Dr gave me the z-​pack and it knocked it out of in 3 days. Avoid this poser!

I went to the Minute Clinic knowing exactly what as wrong (UTI) and the exact antibiotic I needed to feel well again. I opted for the Minute Clinic mistakenly thinking it would be more affordable than an urgent care. It cost me $ 170 for the visit and $ 40 for the medication. The nurse practitioner refused to give me the antibiotics I requested. I understand she is a medical professional, but being someone who has been in this situation about once a year for most of my life, I think I know my body. The prescription I was first prescribed was one listed on my allergy list. After I caught the error, the pharmacist phoned the NP, who still refused the medication I requested. I spent the next day with flu like symptoms due to the reaction I experienced from the medication prescribed. After calling and ranting on the phone, I was prescribed my $ 6 antibiotics of choice, but will not be refunded for the $ 40 prescription that made me ill. If you care your your health or wallet, do not go here.

I had a really bad ear ache and could not get into my doctor for two days so on Friday late afternoon I decided to head to UrgentCare on Midway (despite the really mad to mixed reviews on Unilocal for that facility) when my friend texted me to try out CVS MinuteClinic in the same area. I am SOOO glad I made that turn. MinuteClinic was amazing. No wait at all — Bob Olsen, MSN took care of me quickly, and thoroughly and then the pharmacy there was great in filling out my prescriptions in a very friendly and caring way and got me on the road to health! I will definitely go back here instead of UrgentCare!

I waited for over an hour to be seen, (there was one person on the wait list before me when I got there) the nurse practitioner was from a different location and having trouble using the computer and equipment. They only have two chairs so I hope you don’t mind standing around or sitting on floor.

Quick, easy, clean and helpful. My daughter’s eyes looked as if she had a case of pink eye and Minute Clinic took care of everything.

I was very impressed (while sick mind you, so i was extra hard to please) with the speed and efficiency of this clinic. I arrived prior to opening and was able to sign in and be 1^st on the list for my promptness.
The «Dr’s» arrived right at 9 when they opened, setup and were out to see me by 9:08am. After a quick rundown on my insurance, processing of my copay, and check of my vitals i was diagnosed and my prescription sent to the pharmacy outside. I’d definitely come here again but probably choose another location to fill my prescription as the pharmacy was VERY slow as the pharmacists chit chatted and took their time completing their tasks (tsk, tsk)

It was a 2 week wait to see my doc or over an hour at Urgent Care. I walked into CVS, signed in at the Minute Clinic and was called in less that 10 minutes. The exam was thorough and the NP asked all the right questions. After that, I just walked over to the pharmacy counter for my prescriptions. I was in and out with my medication in less than 45 minutes! Very happy with the service. Now if I could just get rid of this infection…

Best CVS Minute Clinic thus far.
To backtrack, I have been sick for almost a month and have done everything humanly possible to get well again; from Aireborne, Zycam & Alleve to just plain bed rest, chicken soup and tons of hot tea & water. Even some disgusting concoction that my mom made me drink from some recipe that her friend’s daughter’s cousin’s uncle swore by. Super gross. Nothing worked and I was beyond frustrated.
If you’ve ever visited this specific location, you will be pleasantly surprised at the service you get from a nurse named Allyl. I wish I had gotten her last name. She was great, very warm and personable. I loved the fact that she was very thorough, took the time to listen to all of my symptoms and concerns and made me feel comfortable during my visit.
We happened to be #8 in line so we detoured to TJ Maxx to kill time. We killed about an hour or so and decided to check back to see how far along we were. Typically, each visit lasts anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, but when we arrived there was nobody left waiting. YES! We definitely got lucky and had to wait up to hours for other past visits… so expect that if you come at a peak time.
Nurse Allyl was quick to diagnose my illness. She prescribed me an antibiotic literally a few days ago and I’m happy to report that I am almost 100% better! This was after the quack at Scripps Carmel Valley Hospital prescribed medication that did absolutely nothing to improve my condition. Cough syrup with codeine? I’m practically dying here lady! And she was mean, cold and callous… practically yanked up the back of my sweater when she checked my breathing, to my shock and horror. But that’s a whole nother vent. Stay tuned.
I am just thrilled that I can breathe through my nose and taste food again… feels great to no longer be a walking plague of viral infection. LIfe is good. :)