Hospitals Gamble On Urgent Care Clinics To Keep Patients Healthy
Urgent care centers are booming, which worries some doctors
The number of urgent care facilities has steadily increased from 8,000 in 2008 to more than 9,200 this year, the association said. About 600 new centers opened this year.
Medical facilities offering fewer services than an emergency room, but more than most walk-in clinics, are cropping up in strip malls and medical office buildings nationwide.
Urgent care centers, which handle a variety of acute and severe maladies from broken bones to flu and lacerations, are proliferating not only in St. Louis but nationally.
Urgent Cares of America Holdings, LLC announced the acquisition of Tri-City Express Care, PLLC based in Gilbert, Arizona with five urgent care locations in the Phoenix area.
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