When you need medical care and your regular doctor is closed, urgent care is the best alternative. An ear infection, dog bite, or fall that leads to a sprained wrist isn’t guaranteed to happen during normal hours. You shouldn’t have to wait days until your doctor’s...
The value of urgent care is that it’s available all week and often in hours that extend before or after typical work hours. Urgent care is available on weekends, unlike your general practitioner’s office. What happens when you have an after-hours emergency and need...
Urgent care centers are a vital part of the American healthcare system. If you don’t have a doctor or your normal doctor is busy and cannot see you for weeks or months, urgent care centers fill the gap. They’re also handy when you need to see a doctor outside of...
The National Institutes of Health defines telemedicine as “the use of electronic information and communications technologies to provide and support health care.” It’s not as new a practice as you might believe. The earliest telemedicine visits go back to the 1870s...
Most people associate the flu season as an October to March event. The flu is around all year, and so far, A (H1N1) pdm09, A (H3N2), and B flu viruses are all circulating. Activity is low, but it is trending upward at a rate of 0.9%. COVID-19 rates are also...
Knowing when to go to urgent care and when to manage injuries at home can be challenging. Every year, urgent care centers and hospitals treat millions of patients. ERs alone saw 139.8 million patients in 2021, and 41.8% of those visits took less than 15 minutes. It’s...
