Managed Healthcare Executive August 21, 2020
Peter Wehrwein, Briana Contreras

Senior Editor Peter Wehrwein speaks with Lou Ellen Horwitz, CEO of th eUrgent Care Association, about how urgent care centers struggled to personal protective equipment and access to testing.

When Lou Ellen Horwitz saw tents going up in parking lots for COVID-19 testing centers, she had felt like raising her hand and saying, ‘Hey what about us?!’

“I am thinking, ‘We are right here. We don’t require an appointment. We have been walk-in since the day we were born. How did this get missed? So I think that is the tragedy as we see it,” Horwitz, CEO of the Urgent Care Association, said in a videointerview with Managed Healthcare Executive®

Horwitz said urgent care center had difficulty getting...

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