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HCSC was formerly known as Hospital Service Corporation and changed its name to Health Care Service Corporation in 1975. The company was founded in 1936 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with a network of offices in the United States. Health Care Service Corporation is the licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association for five states ...
American Family Care (AFC Urgent Care) 238 The Little Clinic: 220 MedExpress: 213 GoHealth Urgent Care: 150+ CareNow Urgent Care: 150 NextCare Urgent Care: 143 CityMD Urgent Care: 137 FastMed Urgent Care: 104 CareSpot Urgent Care / MedPost Urgent Care: 99 Advocate Health Care Clinics: 86 Patient First: 76 Doctors Care: 58
A retail clinic is a category of walk-in clinic located in retail stores, supermarkets and pharmacies that treat uncomplicated minor illnesses and provide preventative health care services. They are sometimes called "retail-based clinics," "convenient care clinics," or "nurse-in-a-box."
The medical group provides urgent care, primary care, telemedicine, women’s and men’s health services and specialized programs for weight loss, as well as IV infusions for people needing ...
Feb. 2014: Optum purchases a majority stake in Audax Health Solutions, a patient engagement [clarification needed] company. Audax is later rebranded as Rally Health. April 2015: Optum acquires MedExpress, an urgent care and preventative services company. [9] July 2015: Catamaran, a pharmacy benefit manager, joins OptumRx. [3]
Emergency medical services (EMS), also known as ambulance services ""pre-hospital care"" or paramedic services, are emergency services that provide urgent pre-hospital treatment and stabilisation for serious illness and injuries and transport to definitive care. [1]
The Urgent Care Association (UCA) is an organization founded in 2004 to provide resources and training for the industry. [19] The UCA also publishes the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine (JUCM). [20] The American Board of Urgent Care Medicine (ABUCM) was founded in 1997 to provide certification to urgent care physicians. [21]
Acute care is a branch of secondary health care where a patient receives active but short-term treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery. [1] [2] In medical terms, care for acute health conditions is the opposite from chronic care, or longer-term care.