"Urgent care is the delivery of ambulatory care in a facility dedicated to the delivery of medical care outside of a hospital emergency department, usually on an unscheduled, walk-in basis." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urgent_care
Sometimes you need more than what can be done in your traditional Physician's office. Such as suturing, X-Rays, removing a foreign body, opening up an abscess, ect. Also the traditional hours that many Primary care offices are open may not be convenient to the patient that works Monday through friday, 9-5. Urgent Care facilities offer extended hours, early morning, nights and weekends for your convenience.
Urgent Care Centers are growing in certain communities, but there are still many places with limited options. In these areas, there may be a 5 hour Emergency Room wait, for something that an Urgent Care Center can treat in under 1 hour.
I believe that convenient healthcare options, with quick, courteous service, and state of the art electronic record keeping, are the wave of the future.
Our brand new facility looks to meet this need in the Union County, New Jersey area.
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Tara Prisco PA-C, MS
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