Feeling under the weather? Skip the ER waiting rooms and try visiting urgent care.

The urgent care movement started in the United States in the 1970s. Since then, it’s grown to include many locations around the world. There are over 8,000 urgent care centers in the US alone, and many are located in freestanding buildings, not hospitals. Around three million patients visit these urgent care centers each week.

What is Urgent Care?

Traditionally, urgent care centers are designed to lighten traffic to overcrowded emergency rooms by treating non-life threatening injuries and illnesses.… Read More...