About us
Local, physician-led care for the Roanoke Valley
Express Family Care was built around a simple frustration: getting seen quickly should not mean an emergency room bill or a three-week wait for an appointment.
Our story
Emergency-trained care, neighborhood scale
Our clinics grew out of decades spent in busy emergency departments, where a large share of patients did not need an emergency room — they needed to be seen the same day by someone who could order an x-ray, run a lab, and make a decision.
That is the model we run in Bonsack, Cave Spring, and Westlake. Walk in, be examined by a provider, get testing on site, and leave with treatment underway. No appointment, no referral, no maze.
We are locally operated and we live here. The families we treat are neighbors, coworkers, and the people behind us in line at the grocery store — a good reason to keep the standard high.
Our mission
To make high-quality, physician-led medical care immediately available to every family in the Roanoke Valley — delivered with the speed of urgent care and the continuity of family medicine.
- Treat people the way we would want our own families treated
- Diagnose completely before we treat
- Be transparent about cost
- Never make a sick patient drive across town for a test
Our physician
David Alligood, MD
Dr. David B. Alligood, founder of Express Family Care, is a graduate of Wake Forest University School of Medicine who completed his internship and residency in Roanoke. He brings over 20 years of Emergency Medicine experience and served as Director of the Emergency Department at two Carilion hospitals. He offers walk-in care at all three Express Family Care locations.
In 2023 he was named a “Top Urgent Care Doctor” by Roanoker Magazine. That emergency background shapes how our clinics operate: rapid triage, on-site testing, and a low threshold for imaging when something does not add up.
Dr. Alligood provides medical direction across the Bonsack, Cave Spring, and Westlake clinics.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
20+ years practicing Emergency Medicine
Former Emergency Department Director at two Carilion hospitals
2023 Roanoker Magazine “Top Urgent Care Doctor”
Ready when you are
Feeling unwell? Walk in today.
Three Roanoke Valley clinics, no appointment needed, on-site lab and x-ray at every location.