BayCare to open new urgent care in eastern Hillsborough

A new urgent care center will open in eastern Hillsborough County at the end of the month — the first urgent care center to be operated in Plant City under Clearwater-based BayCare Health Systems.

BayCare Urgent Care (Plant City) will open March 30, providing access to non-emergency and occupational health services in the rapidly growing area.

The new urgent care center will be at 1601 W. Timberlane Drive, inside the Ed and Myrtle Lou Swindle Medical Arts Center which already houses primary care, rehabilitation, nutrition and specialty services.

The urgent care center will serve adult patients and children as young as six months old.

“Urgent care plays a vital role in meeting growing community demand for timely, convenient care,” C. Todd Jones, BayCare’s chief strategy officer and chief ambulatory services officer, says in a release.

The urgent care center’s opening comes less than two years after BayCare built its new South Florida Baptist Hospital at 3202 N. Park Road, off Interstate 4 in Plant City. The new urgent care is less than two miles from where the original hospital stood.

BayCare Urgent Care (Plant City) will treat non-emergency conditions such as minor illnesses and injuries, flu and cold symptoms, sprains, strains, minor cuts, stings and burns, the release says. It will also provide camp, school and sports physicals, as well as occupational medicine and workers’ compensation services.

Patients can also come to the urgent care center for COVID-19 testing, flu shots and immunizations, laboratory testing, nebulizer treatments, walk-in drug testing and X-rays, according to BayCare’s website.

The Ed and Myrtle Lou Swindle Medical Arts Center building, where the urgent care will be located, is also home to a variety of BayCare services supporting the community’s care: BayCare Medical Group Primary Care (Plant City), South Florida Baptist Hospital Pediatric Outpatient Rehabilitation Center, A Place For Her (Plant City), South Florida Baptist Hospital Outpatient Nutrition and BayCare Metabolic and Bariatric Center.

All BayCare Urgent Care locations accept walk-in patients, but patients can reserve their place in line for care through BayCare’s Save Your Spot tool online. The new BayCare Urgent Care (Plant City) will operate Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The Plant City urgent care is one in a slew of projects BayCare Health System has launched across the Tampa Bay region beginning last year. It is already the region’s largest health care system, with 16 hospitals located throughout Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Polk counties. In 2025, BayCare Health System posted $7 billion in operating revenue, according to a financial report.