CHS subsidiary to acquire 10 urgent care centers
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Community Health Systems is the latest for-profit health system to invest in urgent care, following peers like HCA and Tenet.
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Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Community Health Systems is the latest for-profit health system to invest in urgent care, following peers like HCA and Tenet.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 1, 2024
Staffing for urgent care sites has always been a challenge at Baptist Health, which is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and serves that state and Indiana. "These virtual providers are centralized in our system and prior to the urgent care rollout already were available 24/7 for other virtual care needs."
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Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 17, 2024
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has closed a deal to scoop up 55 FastMed urgent care clinics operating in the Tarheel State. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has closed a deal to scoop up 55 FastMed urgent care clinics operating in the Tarheel State.
Health Care Dive
MAY 16, 2023
The healthcare marketplace company says the number of urgent care facilities on Zocdoc has grown by almost 40% month over month, and urgent care bookings have also expanded by an average of 80%.
Health Care Dive
MAY 19, 2023
The purchase, which includes clinics in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston and El Paso, will boost the for-profit health system’s urgent care footprint.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Once the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the health system needed to be able to treat the surge of patients with urgent care needs virtually so they could keep them safely at home and away from the overwhelmed emergency care system. NYC H+H patients would then be scheduled for same- or next-day clinic-based infusion therapy."
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 16, 2021
In 2020 alone, urgent care clinics saw a 58% increase in visit volumes due to the demand for COVID-19-related episodic care, with testing and vaccinations accounting for more than 60% of total visits, according to the latest research from urgent care software company Experity, which surveyed half of U.S.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 21, 2022
Cigna study: Virtual care can reduce unnecessary ER, urgent care visits by 19%. Fri, 01/21/2022 - 14:24.
HIT Consultant
MAY 16, 2024
What You Should Know: – athenahealth , a leading provider of healthcare software, unveils athenaOne for Women’s Health and athenaOne for Urgent Care. – The new specialty solutions address the specific needs of Women’s Health and urgent care, empowering them to deliver exceptional patient care.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 12, 2023
Urgent care center chain FastMed has signed another deal handing off many of its Southwest locations to a health system buyer. Word that FastMed is selling off 26 Arizona urgent cares to partner HonorHealth comes just months after the chain sold 41 of its Texas locations to HCA Healthcare.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 4, 2022
HCA Healthcare scoops up MD Now Urgent Care's 59 Florida clinics to support statewide investments. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 13:02.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Urgent care visits are lower revenue, so the shift in mix had an unfavorable impact on total revenue per visit. Amwell's revenue was down 1% year over year to $62.2 million, lower than analyst expectations.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 18, 2023
HCA Healthcare acquiring 41 Texas urgent care centers from FastMed dmuoio Thu, 05/18/2023 - 13:39
p3care
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Giving a miss to urgent care medical billing or compromising over the urgent care services could be a reason. Let’s get familiar with urgent care and the influence of urgent care profit margins on a provider’s financial status. Why Consider Urgent Care Profit Margin in Billing?
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 23, 2023
Zocdoc adds urgent care centers to its platform, citing growing demand agliadkovskaya Tue, 05/23/2023 - 11:40
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 6, 2023
Baylor Scott & White Health (BSW) is adding dozens of Texas urgent care clinics to its network thanks to a newly announced deal with NextCare Urgent Care. |
Home Health Care
JULY 3, 2024
The senior care company Lifespark has been building out its value-based care model for years. Now, it has added in-home urgent care, a key service line for a company taking on upside and downside risk. The urgent care service line will be added to Lifespark COMPLETE, Lifespark’s value-based population health business.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 23, 2023
The nonprofit insurer said it would focus on bringing the clinics up to pre-pandemic standards after suffering staffing shortages.
HIT Consultant
MAY 22, 2023
Monte Sandler, COO of Experity Over the past several years, urgent care centers nationwide have opened their doors to millions of patients in need of COVID-19 testing and treatment, driving an increase in daily patient visit volumes and new, challenging patient care demands.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 4, 2022
The hospital operator continues to double down on the Florida market where it has invested $3 billion in new hospitals and facility renovations over the past three years.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 20, 2024
This partnership brings 24/7 virtual urgent care to Deaconess patients across all 50 states through MyChart, the health system’s patient portal. Quality Care: Access consultations with licensed healthcare professionals from the comfort of home. – Deaconess Health System , a healthcare provider serving over 1.5
HIT Consultant
JULY 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – WellNow Urgent Care , one of the country’s fastest-growing urgent care providers has completed the strategic acquisition of Physicians Immediate Care , a Midwest leader in urgent care and occupational health services with 55 locations in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 26, 2024
What You Should Know: – Samaritan Health Services , a leading healthcare provider in Oregon, has announced a partnership with KeyCare to offer 24/7 virtual urgent care services to their patients.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 25, 2021
urgent care clinics, announced their new EMR and PM operating system in direct response to the pivotal, pandemic-driven movement towards on-demand healthcare. has committed over $50 million in product and development to bring this new urgent care-focused EMR/PM to market in under two years. The company. The company.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 12, 2022
FSH Virtual Primary Care is available via app, website or phone to help improve members’ health by delivering whole-person, digital-first care. It includes three key care components: – 24/7 access to urgent care (telemedicine) for episodic, non-emergent issues.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
A year of constantly shifting gears to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and meet patient needs further solidified the essential role urgent cares play during large-scale public health crises. Subsequently, the pandemic is continuing to change the way patients use and view urgent care.
Health Care Dive
JULY 29, 2024
The cuts will affect urgent care locations, primary and specialty care clinics, and infusion centers, as well as office and remote workers.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Cigna Healthcare, the health benefits division of The Cigna Group, has launched an E-Treatment option through MDLIVE by Evernorth Beginning this month, Cigna members can connect for urgent care from board-certified doctors without any direct interaction via phone or video.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The deal includes more than 70 urgent care and physical therapy clinics, which Novant said would complement its portfolio in South Carolina.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Primary and urgent care providers within HCA Healthcare’s network now have the option to refer their patients to Talkiatry’s full-time psychiatrists from within their electronic health record thank | The integration, which is live across the "vast majority" of HCA's systems, allows primary and urgent care physicians to quickly refer (..)
Healthcare It News
MARCH 6, 2024
A South Florida-based academic medical center, Memorial operates six hospitals, including the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital; numerous primary, urgent and 24/7 care facilities; a health specialty center; and a nursing home. Notably, the service was successfully launched just two months later, beginning on January 17, 2023.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Hundreds of Allina Health physicians have voted in favor of unionizing, creating what their representation believes to be the largest collection of unionized private-sector physicians in the countr | Primary and urgent care clinicians' 325-200 vote was announced late last week and follows another in-favor unionization push by Allina Health inpatient (..)
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 1, 2024
News this week that Walmart is shuttering all 51 health cen | Many digital health leaders say recent moves by Walmart and Optum to exit telehealth are not a signal that the telehealth era is over but that the virtual care market is moving away from commoditized models like virtual urgent care.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 10, 2023
LAS VEGAS—Pharmacy retail giant Walgreens plans to roll out virtual healthcare services later this month for common health needs like urgent care, birth control and seasonal allergies.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 22, 2024
From providing free urgent care via video consultations to around 500 Victorians per day, the VVED now targets to accommodate over 1,000 persons a day, based on a media release. VVED to double capacity Australia's first virtual ED, the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED), is also set to be expanded.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 27, 2023
"In addition, we could use the device to enhance other video visit workflows like that in schools or an urgent care setting for patient overflow," he noted. " Baptist Health also uses the devices for remote on-demand urgent care. "And the vendor plans on adding AI to their tool. "Earache at 9 p.m.
Healthcare It News
MAY 4, 2023
More residential aged care residents in Western Sydney can now access an IT-enabled urgent care service by the New South Wales government following its expansion. It was later expanded to support residential aged care facilities in April last year.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 5, 2024
Telehealth company TytoCare has released a major update to its Home Smart Clinic software to benefit patients’ ability to access primary, specialty and urgent care across care networks and make the | A new software update to TytoCare virtual care products will broaden the provider pool for patients and allow them to collect vital signs at home before (..)
Healthcare Success
JULY 15, 2024
For example, FastMed Urgent Care is a multi-location urgent care business in Raleigh, NC, with three primary urgent care competitors: Duke Urgent Care, WakeMed Urgent Care, and UNC Urgent Care.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Clintel to power HEAL Urgent Care's upcoming Newcastle site Clintel Systems has been chosen to provide an end-to-end PAS, EMR, and billing and claiming solution to the soon-to-rise HEAL Urgent Care facility in Newcastle. It will also be used to handle pre-admission and post-discharge care.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 2, 2023
Missouri's $10 billion health system merger, HCA Healthcare's urgent care pickups and more merger and acquisition news from the month of May.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Evernorth’s telehealth business MDLive plans to start offering asynchronous care using the new capabilities within its virtual urgent care platform in 2024.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
The New South Wales Government has recently expanded statewide its virtual urgent care service for children. It provides them with a centralised view of all requests and resource availability and allows them to self-assign and self-dispatch to outstanding tasks or reallocate when they are busy.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 25, 2021
Outpatient revenues fell 2% in July from the month prior, suggesting patients might again be delaying non-urgent care due to virus concerns.
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