From family medicine to women’s healthcare services, urgent care locations can meet a wide variety of healthcare needs for people of all ages and genders here in the United States. And fortunately, urgent care centers are becoming more commonplace than ever before, with now more than 7,000 of them in full operation throughout the country. This is up from only just over 6,000 of them back in the following year.
But what makes seeking family medicine services and the like at urgent care centers better than seeking such services at general care doctor’s offices or even in emergency rooms? For one thing, urgent care centers tend to be open much more frequently than your traditional doctor’s office is, with more than 80% of all urgent care locations open each and every single day of the week. And some urgent care clinics are even open to provide 24 hour emergency care, provi