Urgent care clinics have long been providing immediate care to those in need of it – for the past 20 years now, as a matter of fact. And in that time, the number of urgent care locations has spread immensely, reaching more than 7,000 by the time we had hit the year of 2016 and only continuing to grow and grow in the years that have followed since. Nowadays, more than 20,000 doctors and other such medical professionals are employed throughout the country at various urgent care locations. In addition to this, up to three million people get immediate treatment from urgent care centers over the course not of a year or even a month, but during the duration of just one single week. There is no denying that this is something that is quite impressive indeed.
But why is this the case? For one thing, the breadth of immediate treatment that can be provided at any given walk in urgent care ce