Community Health Clinics
While providing decent service, emergency rooms aren’t meeting the expectations of people: ER wait times in the U.S. increased from 46.5 minutes to 58.1 minutes from 2003 to 2009; the average ER visit can cost a patient over $1,300. This is both time and money that people just don’t happen to have nowadays. And with […]
Urgent Care Health Clinics By the Numbers
The urgent care industry has been steadily growing ever since the 1970s, but it wasn’t until recent years that outpatient and independent urgent care centers became an important aspect of the national healthcare industry. With thousands of individual facilities across the country and millions of patient visits each week, urgent care centers have begun filling […]
The Benefits of Going to Urgent Care For Medical Treatment
Urgent care centers represent one of the fastest-growing segments within the American health care system. Urgent care facilities offer a higher level of convenience for their clients, at a lower cost and the same amount of quality found in primary care doctors offices and emergency rooms. One of the drivers for the growth of the […]