Practice Management
Heather Rothermel Consider this scenario: You’ve decided to open an urgent care center. You’ve secured funding, found the perfect location, hired amazing providers, created build-out plans to make it your own, and set a go-live date to open your doors to your community. Then you realize you haven’t started contracting and credentialing. In many markets, contracting and credentialing for a start-up can take 9 to 12 months or longer, and operators must consider this timeline …
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Urgent message: Over the past 15 years, the growth of urgent care in the United States has been fueled largely by independent entrepreneurs. Joining a start-up practice can provide tremendous advancement and financial opportunity, but such also comes with the uncertainty, change, and creativity of managing a fledgling new business. Joining a start-up company can be an exciting moment in an employee’s career. While stepping onboard a business during its early stages can feel risky, …
Read More(In the Beginning recounts the real-life experiences of urgent care owners who have taken the initiative to hang out the proverbial shingle and open a new start-up center. It will be an occasionally recurring feature available exclusively in the digital edition of JUCM.) From marketing to urgent care medicine to triathlons, it seems as though Dr. Cheryl Durstein Decker was literally and figuratively born to run, slowing down only occasionally to help others in her …
Read More(In the Beginning recounts the real-life experiences of urgent care operators who have taken the initiative to hang out the proverbial shingle and open a new start-up center. It will be an occasionally recurring feature available exclusively in the digital edition of JUCM.) Ask Dr. Donna Eget about the greatest benefit to owning an urgent care center and she doesn’t miss a beat; to her, it is time—time with family and time with patients. The …
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