Open and ready for patients at Quick Care Tahoe.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Dr. Steven Leman, a long-time physician on the South Shore, has opened Quick Care Tahoe to fill a need for immediate, appointment-less care after the closing of Tahoe Urgent Care and retirement of Dr. Henning Mehrens.
Located near the Y in South Lake Tahoe, Quick Care Tahoe offers medical access seven days/week from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. without the need for appointments. It is privately owned by Dr. Leman and his partners Sean Bishop and Jonathan Raymond.
Quick Care Tahoe is in the process of being able to accept to insurance and offers services at a discount, making it an affordable option for medical care. They can do x-rays and have a physician and medical assistant on site daily.
As snow melts, thousands of pounds of trash revealed in Tahoe
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Broken plastic sleds are often left behind at Lake Tahoe, adding to the area s massive trash problem.Courtesy of League to Save Lake TahoeShow MoreShow Less
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Tahoe Blue Crew volunteers have collected thousands of pounds of trash in the Lake Tahoe region.Jen Dawn / Courtesy of League to Save Lake TahoeShow MoreShow Less
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Cigarette butts and plastic are some of the more common finds in Tahoe s mounting litter problem.Courtesy of League to Save Lake TahoeShow MoreShow Less
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As Tahoe s snow melts, left behind litter is revealed and volunteers pick up trash at the sled hills.Courtesy of League to Save Lake TahoeShow MoreShow Less
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. A 41-year resident of Barton’s Emergency Room staff, Dr. Steve Leman, is opening an urgent care facility, Quick Care Tahoe, in South Lake Tahoe near the “Y.”
Tahoe Urgent Care and Family Medicine closed in May 2020 leaving the south end of the city with no option for swift care for less severe injuries other than Barton’s Urgent Care facility at Stateline or the Emergency Room in South Lake.
“This is a community need that needs to be filled,” Leman said. “I am very proud of the emergency room [at Barton], but it’s focus is for bigger, more complex problems.”
Guest column
Meteorologists love to get our hopes up for huge storms and heavy snows in the Lake Tahoe Basin. More often than not, their optimistic forecasts fall flat. What is promised as 14-21 inches ends up as no more than a light dusting not even worth getting out the shovel. Locals just shrug.
But whether Tahoe sees sunshine, snow, sleet or rain, you can always count on fresh accumulations of litter in the basin. Coming across trash on Tahoe’s slopes, beaches, trails and streets is far more disappointing than missing a big storm. Unlike the weather, litter is something we can control, and in doing so, Keep Tahoe Blue.