Spring Break has arrived and your family is ready to head toward the sun. You literally looked up forecasts to find where you could find the warmest temperatures. As it turned out New Mexico was the winner. With the forecast predicting temperatures in the 80s, the entire family agreed that it would be worth the 24 hours of driving to have your own car and leave first thing Sunday morning. Without having to pay for airfare for four people and without having to follow the timelines of the airlines, your family knew that you could do the driving on Sundays, leaving six days in between to get in all of the hiking, biking, and relaxing that you wanted.
As luck would have it, however, your younger daughter felt miserable the day you arrived. Fortunately, there was a convenient care center that was able to provide immediate treatment and she was back on her feet by Tuesday morning.
Urgent Care Clinics Offer a Wide Range of Valuable Services
When you find yourself looking for immediate treatment for an illness or an injury it is important to consider all of the options that are available to you. Fortunately, walk in clinics provide convenient and quick care at an affordable price. And while there are certainly times when it is necessary to go to hospital emergency centers, these are the most expensive place to get care. For that reason, it makes sense that non emergency health concerns would be more affordably handled at a walk in clinic.
Likewise, there are many times when you want to visit your regular family physician or pediatrician, when you need an immediate appointment these are not always possible. Because of the convenient and quality care that they provide it should come as no surprise that as many as 27% of U.S. patients reported in 2016 that they had visited an urgent care center in the last two years.
As the nation deals with the fact that more and more people are gaining access to healthcare it should also not come as a surprise that there is a need for an increased amount of healthcare services. Factor in that the Urgent Care Association of America’s 2016 Benchmarking Report indicates that 92% of urgent care centers maintained wait times of 30 minutes or less in 2015, and it is easy to see why this is such a popular health care option for so many.
