Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

Make a Plan—Don’t Become a Cyberthreat Statistic!

Cyberattacks on small and mediums-sized businesses (eg, urgent care centers) are on the rise, with the odds of a business interruption due to cyberattack being 33%, according to Randall Dennis, cybersecurity expert and COO of Guidance Partners, which provides IT infrastructure for midsized companies in healthcare and other industries. In fact, Dennis reports, there were over 4,000 ransomware attacks daily in the United States since early 2016—up 300% over the same period for the previous …

‘Snowbirds’ May Find Urgent Care a Perfect Fit

Once the geese start heading south for the winter, retirees can’t be far behind. The question is, where’s home, medically speaking? Typically, these snowbirds (seniors who spend the warmer months in the states where they established their lives but head to southern climates for the winter) keep their “regular” doctors up north but don’t have close ties to medical care near their winter homes. Urgent care could be the perfect solution, however, especially if operators …

Ochsner Gobbles Up Millennium’s Urgent Care Network

Ochsner Health System has enriched its urgent care and occupational medicine holdings by buying Millennium Healthcare Management (MHM). The deal includes MHM’s 12 urgent care centers—nearly doubling the number of locations Ochsner will have in southeast Louisiana, to 25—and four occupational health clinics. Ochsner, one of the first companies to open urgent care centers in the region after Hurricane Katrina, has treated roughly 135,000 patients among its facilities annually.

Is Orthopedic Urgent Care Really Urgent Care?

As the urgent care industry moves forward, other specialties seek to get on board by establishing niche markets within the urgent care industry. Across the United States, subspecialty urgent care such as orthopedic urgent care, pediatric urgent care, and psychiatric urgent care, etc. are already trying to establishing themselves within the urgent care industry. As these facilities become more specialized and exclusive, the question must be asked: Are these subspecialty facilities urgent care—or just marketing …

Advantage, Urgent Care? Plans Are Already Passing ACA Losses Off on Members

Urgent care operators may have new leverage when negotiating reimbursements or appealing to cash-paying patients in North Carolina. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) says it has lost $280 million by covering residents under the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or “Obamacare”)—and in response, it’s filing for a 2017 rate increase of 18.8%. BCBSNC says higher-than-expected ED visits and orthopedic treatments (the cost of which could be greatly diminished if appropriate patients visited …

USPI Adds Urgent Care Centers by Buying CareSpot Express Healthcare

United Surgical Partners International (USPI) added 35 urgent care centers to its portfolio by virtue of acquiring CareSpot Express Healthcare, a regional provider in Florida and Tennessee. United Surgical Partners International Acquires CareSpot Express Healthcare. CareSpot will operate as a division of USPI, managing the 35 centers plus 46 MedPost Urgent Care locations owned by Tenet. No changes in brand identity are planned, currently. The deal comes on the heels of CareSpot spending much of …

How JUCM’s Editorial Process Helps Our Authors

Our authors do the hardest part of publication, researching and writing articles to add to the urgent care literature. Then once we have assessed the big-picture issues during peer review, we polish the manuscripts until they shine, through a process called copyediting. We take care to ensure that after editing, your writing still sounds like you, not like our editors. Here is a partial list of the issues that our editors address during copyediting: Grammar …

Millennials Make Cities A Better Place To Live — For Everyone

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