(Porter County, IN) - Northwest Health may be closing urgent care clinics, but not the ones in La Porte and Michigan City.

The health care system is shutting the doors on urgent care facilities in Portage and Valparaiso, beginning December 1st.

“We continually review how patients access our services as well as opportunities to operate more effectively to meet community needs,” said Northwest Health spokeswoman Kelly Credit.

Credit said employees at the urgent care clinics are being offered roles elsewhere within the health system.

"As always, we will continue to look at how we can most effectively serve patients and our community moving forward," she said.  

Credit also noted that there are no plans to shutter the urgent care clinics in La Porte and Michigan City.

“Those are not, and will not, close,” she said.