GoHealth Urgent Care eyes Fairfield medical office

Joins 3 others along Black Rock Turnpike

FAIRFIELD — A 365day-a-year urgent care facility is set to open in the former Supercuts salon on Black Rock Turnpike.

GoHealth Urgent Care, a medical clinic with locations across the country, received zoning approval Tuesday to place an office inside the space that Supercuts has vacated at 1953 Black Rock Turnpike. The clinic will treat patients with non-life-threatening medical emergencies, take X-rays and run rapid diagnostic tests with a lab on site, according to a letter from a company attorney to the Town Plan and Zoning Commission last month.

The location will join three other urgent care clinics along Black Rock Turnpike — Fairfield Urgent Care Center, American Family Core Urgent

Care and DOCS Urgent Care & Primary Care — and play into a growing field across Connecticut. It would be situated in the same lot as ShopRite, Best Nail Salon and Choice Pet, among other businesses.

“Go Health’s proposed center at the premises is an important location for Go Health because of the area’s history, diversity and density,” said Elizabeth Corey, an associate general counsel for real estate at GoHealth, in the letter to the commission. “This community needs urgent care services to provide immediate care for their families, children and aging members of the population, and it is one well suited to our mission and corporate values.”

Plans for the site show four examination rooms, a waiting area and three other rooms that appear to be designated for staff breaks, storage and clinical work. Corey said GoHealth’s services and treatment would cover allergies, asthma, cold and flu symptoms, COVID tests, ear infections, flu shots, sinus infections, athletic physicals, rashes, telemedicine and urinary tract infections.

GoHealth Urgent Care has more than 30 locations across the state, and its Fairfield location will enter the Nuvance Health network, which operates the Norwalk, New Milford, Sharon and Danbury hospitals, among others. The approval for the medical office application garnered unanimous approval from the Town Plan and Zoning Commission.

"It may serve their various members who are members of the Nuvance group, so based on that I think we should approve," commissioner Steven Levy said.

James Wendt, Fairfield’s planning director, said the urgent care’s move would leave the building and allotted parking untouched. Mark Barnhart, the town’s director of community and economic development, said Supercuts has been out of the space for a few months.