On-Site X-Rays & Diagnostics

On-site diagnostics means we run the imaging and the labs that drive most urgent care and primary care decisions right here in our Knightdale clinic — and we read them during your visit. No driving to a separate imaging center. No waiting three days for a lab to call. No coming back tomorrow.

For a walk-in urgent care, fast diagnostics aren't a luxury. They're the difference between leaving with a diagnosis and a plan, or leaving with a referral and more uncertainty. We built our on-site capability around the two things that change clinical decisions most often: a digital X-ray and a handful of rapid point-of-care tests.

Our digital X-ray suite handles the studies urgent care actually needs, with the radiology read available during your visit.

Common X-ray studies we perform on-site:

• Extremity — wrist, hand, finger, ankle, foot, toe
• Upper extremity — shoulder, elbow, forearm
• Lower extremity — knee, tibia/fibula, femur
• Chest — for cough, shortness of breath, suspected pneumonia, rib injury
• Spine — limited views for back pain after trauma
• Abdomen — for foreign body, obstruction, or constipation evaluation

Most X-rays are taken, read, and discussed with you within 30 minutes. If you're coming in with a minor injury or a fall, imaging is part of the visit — not a separate trip.

Most of the decisions we make in urgent care and same-day primary care are driven by a small number of tests. We run them in-house with results in minutes:

• Rapid strep — for sore throats, results in about 10 minutes
• Rapid flu (A and B) — for fever, cough, body aches during flu season
• Rapid COVID-19 — antigen testing with same-visit results
• RSV — when respiratory symptoms suggest it, especially in higher-risk patients
• Urinalysis and urine pregnancy — for suspected UTI, back pain, abdominal pain
• Blood glucose — fingerstick for suspected hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia
• Mono (monospot) — for prolonged fatigue, fever, and sore throat
• Hemoglobin — quick anemia screening when fatigue is the chief complaint

For more comprehensive panels — A1C, lipid panel, comprehensive metabolic panel, thyroid — we draw in-house and send to our reference lab. Those typically resolve in 1 to 2 business days. See our lab tests and diagnostics page for the full primary care lab menu.

Here's how a visit involving on-site diagnostics works:

1. Clinical evaluation — we examine you and decide which tests are clinically indicated
2. Test collection — X-ray in our imaging suite, throat swab, nasal swab, blood draw, or urine sample
3. In-clinic processing — rapid tests run in our lab; X-rays processed digitally on our equipment
4. Same-visit review — we walk through the results with you, explain what they mean, and adjust the plan
5. Treatment — prescriptions, splinting, IV fluids, return-to-work or school note, or follow-up scheduling, all in the same visit

For patients with chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension, on-site labs mean A1C and metabolic panels can be drawn and reviewed without an extra trip.

Come to Good Health NC for on-site diagnostics if you have:

• A possible fracture, sprain, or fall injury that needs an X-ray today
• Sore throat, fever, or cough where rapid strep, flu, or COVID would change your treatment
• Burning urination, frequency, or back pain that could be a UTI
• Symptoms of dehydration, dizziness, or high blood sugar
• A primary care recheck where same-visit labs (A1C, lipid, metabolic) save you a return trip

When to skip urgent care and go straight to the ER:

• Suspected heart attack or stroke symptoms
• Severe head injury
• Significant chest pain or trouble breathing
• Heavy uncontrolled bleeding

The FDA's guidance on at-home tests is useful if you're trying to decide whether to test at home first or come in — but for anything that needs a treatment decision today, on-site testing in the clinic is faster and more reliable.

Most urgent cares either don't run their own labs or run them slowly. Most imaging centers don't see walk-in patients. Good Health NC was built by our experienced PA-C clinical lead with 22 years of practice — to fix that handoff.

What patients get here:

• One visit, one bill, one set of answers — imaging, labs, and the treatment plan all happen in the same room
• Direct provider-to-patient explanation — the clinician treating you reads your results with you, not a portal message three days later
• Connected records — every test result is in your chart and shared with your primary care provider, so nothing gets lost
• Walk-in access — diagnostics aren't reserved for scheduled patients; we run them when they're needed