Research shows urgent care clinics ease pressure on hospital emergency departments, but need tweaks to work better

"Urgent care centers can help reduce the number of ED presentations and reduce public health care costs," says Dr. Feby ...
Becker's Hospital Review

The rise of hybrid urgent care-ED facilities

More hospitals are launching hybrid emergency departments and urgent care facilities to attract patients, The Washington Post reported Aug. 1. In the past year and a half, Jacksonville, Fla.-based UF ...
NPR

It's called an urgent care emergency center — but which is it?

One evening last December, Tieqiao Zhang felt severe stomach pain. After it subsided later that night, he thought it might be food poisoning. When the pain returned the next morning, Zhang realized ...
AOL

New hospital told to improve emergency care

A hospital's urgent and emergency care services need to make improvements due to overcrowding and safety concerns, a health watchdog has said. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) carried out an ...
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Great Western Hospitals Trust: all the key numbers for the NHS Trust in February, as think tank warns health and care system needs "fixing"

Tens of thousands of patients were waiting for routine treatment at Great Western Hospitals Trust in February, new figures show. It comes as a health policy think tank warned England's health and care ...