How do URGENT CARE centers decrease wait times?
In hospital admission, long term management of chronic disease and other conditions requiring long term medical management and extended medical records, often results in increased wait/visit times for patients. Because of the focus on only episodic problems, urgent care centers do not have to provide any of these “abstract” medical services, and are immune, therefore, to all of the associative problems. All acute care problems can be addressed in the acute or urgent care centers and directed to other institutions, specialists, or back to a primary care physician, as necessary.