Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

Rural Network Strategy Includes Urgent Care

Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) this week acquired RMS Healthcare Management’s Med First Primary & Urgent Care, a portfolio company of private equity firm Sverica Capital Management. Founded in 2007, Med First operates a hybrid model for both primary care and urgent care services, and it’s also one of the frontrunners in risk-based accountable care in the North Carolina market. The acquisition by CCNC is unique because Med First represents a private-equity-backed platform operating …

Can Urgent Care Fill the Child Healthcare Gap?

Data from the National Health Survey show healthcare considered routine by today’s standards is simply inaccessible for some 20.3 million children, in spite of the fact that the number of uninsured children has plummeted by nearly two thirds in the past decades (from 10 million uninsured in 1997 to 3.3 million in 2015). This is most evident in preventive medicine (including immunizations), management of acute and chronic medical conditions, and timely access to subspecialists, according …

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