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Urgent Care Advantages

The advantages of urgent care centers include:

• Lower co-pays compared to emergency room visits
• A less expensive alternative for insurers/payors compared to traditional emergency room visits
• Alleviation of crowding that currently occurs in emergency departments (EDs) due to congestion created by patients who are low-acuity cases
• Provision of after-hours access to the community when the offices of their primary care physician are typically closed
• Primary care physician relationships and referrals (nearly 20% of WNY Immediate Care patients are referred by their PCP)
• High patient satisfaction (98% of WNY Immediate Care patients are “very satisfied”)
• High brand equity (over 40% of WNY Immediate Care patients are referred by a family member or friend who has knows of or has personally experienced our services)
• Opportunity to provide occupational healthcare services to the corporate community, and the provision of physicians to meet the demand in the community