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Get The Care You Need At An Urgent Care Facility

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Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and felt that something was seriously medically wrong with you but it was the middle of the night and you could not go to your regular physicians office but did not think your ailment warranted an emergency room visit? Neither have I, but if you ever do now you can visit a 24 hr urgent care facility.

The Rand Corporation found in 2010 that one if five visits to hospital emergency rooms could have been treated at urgent care facilities. If those one in five visits were treated at an urgent medical care provider it could potentially save 4.4 billion dollars in health care costs.

An alternative to emergency room, 24 hr urgent care facilities can often treat you with a shorter wait time than a hospital emergency room visit. Urgent Read More