Urgent Care America has identified over 8,800 existing urgent care centers or small groups of centers that potentially meet the established standards for UCA integration.
Founded in early 2008, UCA has set forth a development strategy as follows:
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Year 1 (Complete as of April 1, 2009)
UCA expected to integrate 28 locations. As of February 1, 2009, UCA has 26 locations in seven states and now expects to have 40 by the end of the first year and a service territory that includes 22 states. The robust growth in affiliated center locations is being driven by both the demand for urgent care services and hunger of operators to affiliate in order to achieve better financial and operational results. .
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Year 2
UCA expects to have affiliations with 60 centers in as many as 20 states
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Year 3
UCA expects to have affiliations with 150 centers and to be represented in all 35 States.
At the outset, UCA management set out to have affiliations in all 50 states in 3 years. The downturn in the economy affected the that plan only because some states have been significantly impacted and thus are not positioned well for urgent care center growth.
Service lines are being added all the time and the opportunity to bring central value to independently owned and operated urgent care centers is tremendous.