http://onthepharm.net/2006/08/entrepreneurs-and-urgent-care-clinics.html Life on the pharm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:54:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://onthepharm.net/2006/08/entrepreneurs-and-urgent-care-clinics.html#comment-1425 David Stern, MD Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:30:54 +0000 http://onthepharm.net/2006/08/entrepreneurs-and-urgent-care-clinics.html#comment-1425 You are exactly right! Urgent care centers truly are a wave of the future with several more opening every week in the USA. They truly do fill the niche, treating mostly middle-class patients with middle-of-the-road problems (i.e., problems that can't wait a week but are not true emergencies). They new wave is driven by ED overcrowding (often with non-emergency cases), the difficulties that primary care doctors have in fitting more patients into their busy schedules and public demand for convenient access to urgent care. The <a href="http://www.ucaoa.org" rel="nofollow">Urgent Care Association of America</a> has two conferences each year (spring annual convention and fall conference) with full-day (plus) seminars on how to start an urgent care center. The annual attendance at the seminars is currently around 200 with many physicians aspiring to enter the dynamic field of urgent care. UCAOA is also sponsoring a fellowship, with three physicians entering postgraduate training in 2006 at the University Hospitals in Cleveland. The organization, also, will begin publication of the <a href="http://www.jucm.com" rel="nofollow">Journal of Urgent Care Medicine</a> in October of 2006. The next <a href="http://www.ucaoa.org/national_urgent_care_conference.htm" rel="nofollow">Annual Conference</a> of the Urgent Care Association of America will be held in Daytona, FL on May 9-12, 2007. You are exactly right! Urgent care centers truly are a wave of the future with several more opening every week in the USA. They truly do fill the niche, treating mostly middle-class patients with middle-of-the-road problems (i.e., problems that can't wait a week but are not true emergencies). They new wave is driven by ED overcrowding (often with non-emergency cases), the difficulties that primary care doctors have in fitting more patients into their busy schedules and public demand for convenient access to urgent care. The Urgent Care Association of America has two conferences each year (spring annual convention and fall conference) with full-day (plus) seminars on how to start an urgent care center. The annual attendance at the seminars is currently around 200 with many physicians aspiring to enter the dynamic field of urgent care. UCAOA is also sponsoring a fellowship, with three physicians entering postgraduate training in 2006 at the University Hospitals in Cleveland. The organization, also, will begin publication of the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine in October of 2006. The next Annual Conference of the Urgent Care Association of America will be held in Daytona, FL on May 9-12, 2007.

]]> http://onthepharm.net/2006/08/entrepreneurs-and-urgent-care-clinics.html#comment-531 Medicine and common sense :: OnThePharm Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:28:25 +0000 http://onthepharm.net/2006/08/entrepreneurs-and-urgent-care-clinics.html#comment-531 [...] In the article I referenced in my last post, the last couple of paragraphs stood out to me, because it highlights something that I’ve noticed lately: a lack of common sense and a treatment of symptoms rather than the cause. Especially for what are mostly simple problems like headaches, dizziness, and that sort of thing. [...] [...] In the article I referenced in my last post, the last couple of paragraphs stood out to me, because it highlights something that I've noticed lately: a lack of common sense and a treatment of symptoms rather than the cause. Especially for what are mostly simple problems like headaches, dizziness, and that sort of thing. [...]

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