Patient Engagement January 8, 2018
Retail and urgent care clinics make patient access to care convenient, but also have their pitfalls.
Retail and urgent care clinics are an ever-growing segment of the healthcare industry. These alternative treatment sites allow patients to receive care from qualified provider in settings outside of the traditional office or emergency department.
A retail health clinic is one located within a retail store – a CVS MinuteClinic or a Target health clinic, for example. An urgent care clinic is a facility at which patients can receive non-life-threatening emergency care outside of the hospital ED. These clinics are usually standalone, do not have observation beds, and are located within shopping plazas.
Urgent care centers are on the rise, slated for market growth...
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