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Urgent Care Phone Number

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:05:40 PDT

In a 2008 blog, I wrote about how healthcare leaders in England are exploring the creation of a phone number that people can call specifically for urgent care services (a supplement to England’s 999 emergency number). A new consultation that launched this week may bring that goal closer to fruition. The consultation will look into whether England should have a number ...

Urgent Care Consolidation

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:29:58 PDT

America’s roughly 8,000 urgent care centers are a mix of everything from “mom and pop” facilities run by one or two physicians, to being part of behemoth healthcare organizations. Somewhere between, urgent care chains that started out modestly as a single enterprise are slugging it out to rise above the fray and claim for themselves the title of largest and ...

Ark. Docs Form Strong Product Purchasing Group

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:30:57 PDT

In good proof of how there is strength in numbers, independent doctors in Arkansas have formed an organization called the Independent Physician's Alliance so they can receive discounted services and products from vendors.This homespun group purchasing organization is helping several urgent care doctors, including Dr. John Weddle of River Valley Urgent Care, who has been with the program for three ...