CONWAY — Patients in New Hampshire’s Mount Washington Valley with urgent but non-life-threatening medical needs now have another option to receive same-day care.
MaineHealth Urgent Care opened on Monday in the Red Barn Shopping Center at 1976 White Mountain Highway in North Conway.
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