Why Urgent Care is Faster and Cheaper Than the Emergency Room

If you’ve never considered the benefits of urgent care services over going to the emergency room, you may not know why people prefer urgent care more. Urgent care offers all the help you’d need for a variety of situations under one roof. Here’s everything you need to know about getting help at the urgent care and why you should choose this option.

Urgent Care is Open for Longer Than You Realize

Many people think they cannot make it to an urgent care clinic if it’s a certain time, and opt for the emergency room instead.… Read More...

The Role Urgent Care Centers Are Playing in the Ebola Outbreak

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When the Dallas County Sheriff Deputy who entered the apartment of the first Ebola patient to die of the virus in the U.S. started to feel ill himself, the first place he opted to go an urgent care clinic as opposed to a hospital emergency room.

Additionally, a man who recently visited West Africa began complaining of severe flu-like symptoms also visited an urgent care facility seeking treatment, prompting the facility to briefly close.

The two nurses who contracted the deadly Ebola virus while caring for the Dallas patient, who have no since recovered, have drawn debate of how the virus was transmitted from patient to nurses who were covered in protective gear.… Read More...