urgent care

Concerns at the community meeting included a desire for primary care and mental health care options, and the importance of hiring Black doctors and contractors to manage and build the center.

The many options — particularly urgent care and free-standing ERs — can make the head spin. The wrong choice can mean big bills and even poor outcomes. Facilities have little incentive to clear up the confusion.

Russell Cook expected a quick, inexpensive visit to an urgent care center for his daughter after a car wreck. She wasn't badly hurt, but they were sent to an emergency room — for a much larger bill.

Referrals have become so prevalent that the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with interim guidance for doctors "to provide care for the same variety of visits" practiced prior to the pandemic.

Later this fall, Capital Health Plan will open its new Metro Center Building near the corner of Thomasville Road and Interstate 10.

Struggling with long wait times, the Veterans Affairs Health Care System is trying something new: a partnership with the CVS Pharmacy chain to offer…

A recent poll shows 27 percent of Americans have visited an urgent care center in the past two years. Why? Most cite convenience.

The Baptist brand of health care is coming to Miami Beach. The city planning board voted 6-1 to give Baptist the green light to build an urgent care...

It turns out some of South Florida's largest hospital systems are taking a page out of the urgent-care playbook. Questions about the safety and...