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Don’t Forget Your Flu Shot

As the seasons shift around October and November, the air begins to feel crisp. An autumn chill rolls over the mountains, bringing with it a coziness that’s marked by light scarves, pumpkin spice — and a wave of influenza outbreak. Each year, flu seaso…

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Halloween Safety

Halloween may be a horror-themed holiday, but the fun stops when fright forgoes fiction. In real life, scary situations are seldom enjoyable — only from the comfort of a couch, in the form of a spooky story or film. This Halloween, Mercy Urgent Care wa…

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month

As leaves turn red, orange and yellow this October, Mercy Urgent Care is, instead, focused on pink — breaking out bright magenta ribbons, spreading information and sharing survivors’ stories for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This month, Mercy…

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World Heart Day

Move over, Valentine’s Day. September is here with its very own (more anatomically correct) heart holiday. This Saturday, Sept. 29, is World Heart Day — and Mercy Urgent Care wants to remind you to keep heart health in mind both this weekend and all ye…

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Healthy Aging Month

September is Healthy Aging Month, and with an active older population, Western North Carolina has become a vibrant retirement mecca. To keep you at your peak both mentally and physically, Mercy Urgent Care Medical Director, Dr. Elizabeth McCarty, offer…

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Mercy Day

September 24 is the anniversary of the opening of the first House of Mercy on Baggot Street, Dublin, Ireland in 1827. There, Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy, an international religious institute of Roman Catholic women, opened a scho…

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