100 Largest Urgent Care Center Operators

The 100 largest urgent care operators in the United States run approximately 25% of the locations under their banners, according to research by Practice Velocity and National Urgent Care Realty. They’re getting even bigger, too; the number of locations owned by the companies on the list expanded by about 20% this year. While ownership was once delineated between hospital-affiliated and independents, several multi-unit operators now operate in some (but not all) of their markets as hospital joint ventures or under management agreements. Large national hospital operators (eg, HCA, Tenet) are also developing national networks of distinctly branded urgent care centers. The biggest of the big are listed here, sorted by number of locations as of January and November 2016. (Note: N/A indicates the operation either did not exist or was not tracked in January 2016.) For the complete list of 100 largest urgent care operators, visit www.jucm.com.

Source: Practice Velocity and National Urgent Care Realty, November, 2016.