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Methodist Healthcare this week announced its acquisition of 18 Texas MedClinic urgent care centers, increasing its San Antonio urgent care network to 35 CareNow locations. Texas MedClinic was founded in 1982 and represented one of the state’s oldest and most recognizable independent urgent care brands. It was acquired in 2022 by Community Care Partners.
Yet, the larger story is that Methodist’s parent company, HCA Healthcare, has acquired the entire Texas MedClinic portfolio of 40 urgent care centers and is now distributing the clinics among its regional health systems:
- Methodist Healthcare (18 rooftops)
- St. David’s HealthCare (14 rooftops)
- HCA Houston Healthcare (8 rooftops)
Building the network: All the newly acquired centers have transitioned to the CareNow Urgent Care brand, which now includes more than 430 urgent care clinics nationwide as a result of this transaction and other completed deals across Texas, the Carolinas, and Florida since 2022. As for HCA, the buying spree is more evidence of how major health systems increasingly view urgent care as an important front door for referrals to their networks. See where HCA ranks among the leading organizations in JUCM’s Urgent Care Top 100.