Becker's Healthcare July 13, 2023
Alan Condon

Health systems understand that urgent care is not going away, leading many to acquire or partner with such groups to reduce market competition and serve as a funnel for their specialty care services.

Here are five health systems that have acquired or announced plans to acquire urgent care centers in the last eight months:

1. Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has agreed to purchase 41 Texas urgent care centers from FastMed. The deal includes 19 FastMed and 22 MedPost urgent care centers in several of Texas’ major cities, including Dallas and Austin. Currently, HCA operates 268 urgent care clinics nationwide. The deal is set to close this summer.

2. Forty-one urgent care clinics across Texas will join Dallas-based Baylor Scott...

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Topics: Health System / Hospital, Mergers & Acquisitions / JV, Partnerships, Provider, Trends, Urgent care
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