Urgent care clinics are a convenient resource due to being open outside normal work hours, including weekends. As such, urgent care clinics are common places to go for illness treatment as they are able to provide routine care and carry out testing on a more urgent basis. A step below emergency care, they can be…

Urgent care centers were developed in the 1970s to treat patients who needed immediate but non-emergency medical assistance. They were created to treat walk-in patients who did not want to wait for an appointment with a primary care doctor and who were not ill enough or injured severely enough to need to visit the emergency…