IMPROVING WAIT TIMES- URGENT CARES GROWING FAST

What is Urgent Care?
Urgent care is the fastest growing segment of our healthcare system. This growth is directly related to the desire of patients to have easy access to quality medicine provided by informed and connected medical providers. Urgent Care has demonstrated to be both convenient and cost effective.

Largely, urgent care providers specialize in treating a disease, illness, or injury when presented on an episodic basis. The disease, illness or injury which is treated in the urgent care setting is usually acute, and with treatment, is fully corrected in seven to fourteen days.

Because of the focus on only episodic problems, the urgent care providers generally do not provide obstetric services, in-hospital admission, long term management of chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, or other conditions requiring long term medical management. However, we do have a large network of specialty physicians that we will refer you to for continued care.

Many emergency medicine trained physicians are shifting to an urgent care medical practice in order to escape the overcrowded hospital emergency departments, which have proven to be the least desirable venue for ambulatory care patients to seek immediate care.

Urgent Care Medicine provides services to 85% of the population who do not suffer from a long-term chronic disease, or require the services of a hospital.

90% or more of all encounters at urgent care centers are episodic and acute, including, minor lacerations, fractures, bumps, sore throats, ear infections, and other "just don’t feel good" conditions.

It is documented that one of the leading causes of waiting in MD offices and Emergency Rooms is due to unneccessary visit reasons many of which can be managed at Urgent Care facilities.

FOR INFORMATION ON ER VS. URGENT CARE VISIT www.health.com/health/article/0,,20456481,00.html
www.urgentcare.org/UrgentCareDefined/ERvsUrgentCare/tabid/253/...



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