Walk-Ins Welcome
- No Appointment Needed
- Open Monday–Saturday: 7AM – 7PM
- Pre-Register Online
Getting answers often requires more than a physical examination. Sanova offers on-site lab testing and rapid diagnostics to support urgent-care evaluation.
Sanova runs rapid flu, strep, COVID and urine tests in minutes, and draws CBC, metabolic, thyroid, A1c, STI and Valley Fever panels on site — all ordered by the provider who sees you, so treatment can start the same visit.
Walk in, no appointment. Rapid results are reviewed with you before you leave; send-out results usually return in about one business day and we reach you by phone or through the Elation patient portal.
Testing is ordered to answer a specific clinical question, not chosen from a list. Here's how that decision works.
Many common tests — flu, strep, COVID-19, urinalysis, pregnancy and fingerstick glucose — are run and read right at our clinic, so your provider often has a result before you leave.
Some tests require an outside laboratory to process. When this applies, your provider will explain the test, the expected wait for results, and how you'll be notified.
Come ready to describe the symptom or question you'd like evaluated. Your provider decides which test, if any, is appropriate — and for severe symptoms, that decision is guided by clinical urgency, not by a specific test a patient may request.
The exact test performed depends on your symptoms and your provider's clinical evaluation.
Available testing includes:
Depending on the clinical situation, testing may include:
Urine testing may help evaluate:
Confidential care, handled discreetly:
Laboratory tests should answer a clinical question. Your provider first evaluates your symptoms and determines which test, if any, is appropriate. Results are then interpreted together with your history and examination rather than in isolation.
The value of an on-site lab is simple: you get an answer in the same visit, and treatment starts the same day. Sanova Urgent Care on North Oracle Road runs rapid tests in minutes and draws blood for send-out panels six days a week — no hospital draw station, no separate appointment — for patients from Catalina, SaddleBrooke, Oro Valley, Rancho Vistoso and Sun City Oro Valley.
Urine cultures, wound cultures (including MRSA), STI and STD testing, mono, and Valley Fever serology. Chest X-ray is available on site when a cough or fever needs imaging as well.
Diabetes, cholesterol and thyroid screening during a provider visit; urine drug screens and pre-employment screening for local employers; and the lab work that goes with sports and school physicals.
Every test begins with a provider — a nurse practitioner or physician — who listens to your symptoms and orders the tests that will actually change your treatment, rather than a menu of tests you have to choose from yourself. Rapid tests run while you wait and are reviewed with you in the exam room. Blood is drawn in the clinic and sent to our reference lab; a provider reviews the results when they return, usually within about one business day (cultures can take a little longer), and reaches you by phone or through the Elation patient portal with the result and any prescription or next step. Results are sent to your primary care doctor on request.
Sore throat and fever (strep vs. viral), flu-like illness, a cough that has lasted more than two weeks (chest X-ray plus Valley Fever testing), burning with urination, fatigue and weight change (thyroid, anemia, diabetes screening), a possible STI exposure, follow-up labs a doctor ordered but a hospital draw station is inconvenient, and pre-employment or sports-physical requirements. Blood pressure is checked at every visit — see high blood pressure care.
Testing is billed with your urgent care visit. Medicare, Tricare, UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, AHCCCS and most major plans cover medically necessary testing at urgent care. Self-pay patients see individual test prices on our insurance and costs page before anything is drawn. Rapid test results are read during your visit. Related: X-ray on site · flu, strep and COVID testing · all walk-in services · areas we serve.
Everything you need to know before your visit. Can’t find your answer? Call us at (520) 232-2525.
Yes. Walk in Monday through Saturday, 7am to 7pm — no appointment, no referral. A provider will see you first, decide which tests answer your question, and most rapid tests (flu, strep, COVID, urine, pregnancy, glucose) result while you wait. Blood panels sent to our reference lab usually result within about one business day, and we reach you by phone or through the Elation patient portal with results and a plan.
Yes. Digital X-ray for chest, limbs and spine is done in the clinic and read the same visit, so a cough that needs a chest film or an injury that needs imaging is handled in one stop. See our X-ray and fracture care page.
We draw blood on site. Walk in Monday through Saturday, 7 AM to 7 PM; if you pre-register online before you arrive, check-in is shorter. All blood work is processed by an outside laboratory, usually back in about one business day, and your provider tells you the expected turnaround before you leave.
Flu, strep, COVID-19, urinalysis and pregnancy tests are run and read in the clinic, usually within minutes. Your provider decides which test answers the question you came in with.
Most send-out blood tests come back within about one business day, depending on the test; cultures can take a little longer. A provider reviews every result, and we reach you by phone call, through the Elation patient portal, or both; you don’t need to chase us for it. If a result means your prescription should change, we adjust it by phone and send the new prescription to your pharmacy, with no second visit needed. If something needs to be seen in person, we tell you that too.
Not required, but it helps. Pre-register online and your check-in is done before you walk in.
Yes, if you are an established Sanova patient. Bring the order from your doctor and your insurance card; we draw the sample here and send it to LabCorp or Sonora Quest, and the results go to the provider who ordered them. To shorten check-in, pre-register online before you come in.
Rapid influenza A/B, strep A, COVID-19 antigen, urinalysis and urine dipstick, urine pregnancy, fingerstick glucose and rapid mono typically result in 10 to 20 minutes. Our providers use them to start treatment before you leave.
Complete blood count (CBC), comprehensive and basic metabolic panels (kidney function, electrolytes, liver enzymes, glucose), lipid panel, hemoglobin A1c, thyroid (TSH), iron studies, vitamin D and B12, uric acid, and inflammation markers such as CRP and ESR. STI panels and Valley Fever antibody testing are also drawn here. Most result within about one business day.
Often, yes. Bring the order and we’ll draw the tests we’re able to run and send results to your doctor — a convenient option for SaddleBrooke, Catalina and Oro Valley patients who don’t want to drive to a hospital draw station. Call (520) 232-2525 first so we can confirm the specific tests and your insurance coverage for outside orders.
Yes. A cough, fatigue, fevers, night sweats or a rash that lingers more than two or three weeks in the Tucson area raises the question of Valley Fever (coccidioidomycosis). We order the antibody blood test, add a chest X-ray on site when indicated, and manage or refer based on the result.
Yes. A provider visit is part of every lab test at Sanova, and screening for diabetes (A1c and glucose), cholesterol and thyroid function can be ordered during that visit when it’s medically appropriate — for example, unexplained fatigue, weight change or family history. We’ll review the results with you and send them to your primary care doctor.
Yes. Urine drug screens and pre-employment health screenings are offered for local employers and job applicants on a walk-in basis. See our drug testing and pre-employment screening page for details and pricing.
Testing is billed alongside your urgent care visit. Most plans — Medicare, Tricare, UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, Humana and AHCCCS — cover medically necessary tests at urgent care. For self-pay patients, rapid tests and common panels are priced individually and posted on our insurance and costs page so you can see the cost before the swab or draw.
Rapid results are reviewed with you during the visit. Send-out results are reviewed by a provider as soon as they return — usually about one business day — and we reach you by phone or through the Elation patient portal with the result and any prescription or next step. Copies go to your primary care doctor on request.
Further reading: Medical Tests (MedlinePlus).
