According to recent data, approximately three million Americans seek treatment via urgent care facilities every week. This places urgent care centers as the forefront of the United States’ rapidly expanding health care industry. Despite the growing popularity of urgent cares among people in need of a family walk in clinic, many Americans with minor injuries or illnesses don’t bother to find urgent care facilities, and opt for hospital emergency rooms instead.

Since emergency room treatment often requires long waits and sky high medical bills, one can only assume that folks who choose hospital emergency rooms over 24 hour urgent care centers either don’t know they exist, or are not responsible for paying for their own medical expenses.… Read More...