Tips for Choosing Care
Depending on your illness or injury, you can save time and money going to emergency care, urgent care or your primary care doctor.
When you or a loved one need life-saving care, turn to the dedicated team at the Joseph C. Corkery, MD, Emergency Center at Lahey Clinic. Located on our Burlington campus, we offer the most advanced treatments for severe illnesses or injuries.
We primarily care for adult patients but offers limited pediatric and obstetric emergency services. We also provide care for emergency mental health symptoms. Parking is available to all patients and visitors.
The Emergency Center offers comfortable waiting areas and room for loved ones to remain with patients receiving care. View Lahey's visitor policies, which apply to everyone, including ER visitors.
As the only Level I trauma center north of Boston, we are uniquely qualified to provide time-sensitive, critical care for hundreds of thousands of people in our region. This prestigious achievement from the American College of Surgeons is given to only a few select facilities that show exceptional readiness, resources, commitment and policies when providing advanced trauma care.
Call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room if you have a life-threatening illness or injury.
Depending on your illness or injury, you can save time and money going to emergency care, urgent care or your primary care doctor.