Are Urgency Centers Becoming a ‘Thing?’

Are Urgency Centers Becoming a ‘Thing?’

They’re popping up in Boulder, Vancouver, the Twin Cities, and a scant few other locations around the country, but the question for many people—certainly the patients who may (or may not) be inclined to visit them—remains, what is an “urgency” center? As the name implies, urgency centers are intended to be a hybrid of emergency rooms and urgent care centers, without getting caught up in the controversies surrounding freestanding emergency rooms (mainly as they pertain …

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