Background
Physicians from traditional specialties such as, family practice and internal medicine are shifting to Urgent Care as an option to practices generally associated with their individual trades. The demands of being on-call, the travel between an office/hospital/nursing home push physicians in these specialties to consider a change. Emergency room physicians, who represent a large portion of the urgent care genesis, sometimes experience "burn out" between the ages of 42-47 and are looking for a way to use their triage skills and reduce some of their stress.
These physicians, both independent, and in concert with hospitals are opening new centers everyday. All urgent care medicine is office-based. Urgent Care Medicine specializes in the treatment of any disease, illness, and injury, which is presented by otherwise healthy consumers. Urgent Care Medicine provides services to 85% of the population who do not suffer from a long-term chronic disease, or require the services of a hospital.
Service Definition
UCA is in the business of providing a wide variety of support services to urgent care centers owned by independent physicians wishing to maintain their independence and have the benefits associated with a large network.
Services offered to physicians are detailed more completely in the outline of individual services on this website but the underlying purpose of UCA is to "synergize" physician entrepreneurs in their quest to be more successful in offering a quality service to patients seeking care in the urgent care setting.