What Are The Top 4 Benefits Of Primary Urgent Care?

Emergency medicine is the medical discipline that provides outpatient care for the treatment of acute and chronic diseases and injuries that require treatment within approximately 24 hours. Professionals need a broad knowledge base to provide such widespread forms of care.

Primary urgent care is not intended to replace the treating physician. Rather, it offers an option when your GP is not in practice (in the evenings and on weekends) or cannot provide you with an appointment on time. Emergency care also provides a quicker and less expensive alternative to a hospital emergency room when the illness or injury is not life-threatening.

At 1st Stop Urgent Care and Family Practice, we offer the best of both worlds as we are your primary medical care provider, providing emergency care services to all of our patients and anyone else in need of assistance. Our physicians and medical director have over 25 years of experience serving the residents of Camarillo, CA and surrounding communities, and he wants you to understand the top five benefits of using an emergency center.

5 Advantages Of Emergency Centers

Urgent care and family practice centers have five key benefits:

In 2018, the Urgent Care Association (UCA) said there were 8,250 emergency rooms in the United States, with 400 to 500 new clinics opening each year between 2014 and 2017. No matter where you live in the country, you'll need to be close enough to a center to get the care you so desperately need.

The emergency room and the emergency room near me are open if you need to go to them. Even if there is an urgency, you may not be able to make an appointment with your urgent care in Torrance GP right away. First aid centers are generally open seven days a week, with evening hours from Monday to Friday, and there is no need to make an appointment - you can just walk in.

If you go to the emergency room, you may spend hours in the waiting room before being called back by the doctor. According to a 2017 UCA survey, most urgent care in Camarillo centers can see you in 20 minutes or less, even if you enter, and most patients are diagnosed, treated, and discharged within a day. 

An emergency room visit usually costs a fraction of the cost of a hospital emergency room visit. According to a UCA analysis citing figures from 2016, Cigna claims that "nearly half of all ER visits result in an average cost of less than $150 - compared to the average cost of an ER visit of $2,250 U.S. dollars". According to the UCA report, most emergency clinics also accept Medicare and Medicaid.

With 1st Stop Urgent Care and Family Practice, you get an added benefit: your emergency doctor is your GP, which means we already know you and your medical history and have access to all of your medical records. This allows our primary urgent care experts to better coordinate your care.

Do you have an urgent but non-life-threatening medical need? The Cabinet of the 1st Emergencies and General Practitioner Stop is open by appointment and visits from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and weekends only. Call us for more information or send us a message online.