The Need for On-Site and Urgent Medical Care Centers

There is a new trend worldwide that is influencing the healthcare industry and it includes major companies and employers that are eager to curb the ever-increasing healthcare costs. They are opening their own healthcare centers, which provide state-of-the-art medical services and uses the latest healthcare equipment, such as X-ray and EKG equipment, to provide these medical services.

Many companies have embraced the new cost-cutting strategies that have been implemented through the opening of these new healthcare centers, where doctors and nurses provide important medical care to people. Most people are now able to gain access to medical care, closer to where they work and live.

Full Service Healthcare at the Office

Many of these new healthcare centers offer full healthcare services, previously only provided by hospitals. They are equipped with X-ray machines, exam rooms, and pharmacies that offer you all the medical care you need. X-rays, labs and EKG on-site services are on offer to all patients and further services include dermatology, dentistry, and psychiatry. Other specialists who specialize in the treatment of life-threatening illnesses are available at most of these healthcare centers as well.

Most employers that have implemented this cost-cutting strategy are seeing the new healthcare centers as a way to receive much more for their money. They say that by providing in-house medical services, they will keep their employees healthier and more productive too. There are those skeptics that wonder about the quality of the medical care that are provided at these healthcare centers and others worry that employees are surrendering all their medical privacy to their employers.

The latest statistics have shown that nationally in the US, there are 15% of all companies with more than 500 employees, which have their own healthcare centers, and the numbers are increasing.

Urgent Care for All

Most of your urgent care centers offer on-site X-ray and EKG facilities and they will have their own laboratory service as well. More of these urgent healthcare centers are opening closer to where people live as well, and these centers offer an important medical care service to people who suffer from an injury or an illness that requires urgent care. These injuries or illnesses are usually not serious enough to warrant a visit to any hospital’s emergency department. Compared to a hospital’s emergency room, or emergency department, which is open 24/7, an urgent care center is not open on a continuous basis.

A huge advantage of all urgent care centers are that you do not need to make any appointments and they offer a full walk-in service. Your waiting period in an urgent care center is usually not as long as in the normal emergency room of a hospital. You are able to receive any medical care at an urgent care center when your doctor is not available, which often happens when you have a medical emergency.