Essay On Urgent Care

In my understanding there’s always a controversy between Emergency Rooms versus Urgent Care Centers who provides the best care from each other. The debate over receiving treatment at a hospital emergency room versus treatment from an urgent care center is worth having for anyone concerned about medical debt, especially families, who may have a lot of “emergency” and “urgent” needs facing them every year. There are many sides to the debate, but generally my understanding for deciding between an emergency room and urgent care center are based upon your symptoms. According to my own experience of working in a hospital and a clinic as well as my own personal experience as a patient you should go to urgent care if you have a non-urgent condition
such as a fever, flu symptoms, allergic reactions, minor cuts, animal bites, and broken bones urgent care centers are far better for time and cost. But if you have an extreme medical condition such as a stroke, heart attack, severe burns, and electrical shock then the resources and services available at hospital emergency room makes a far better choice. Then there is the time factor. Patients at urgent center care are seen on a first-come, first-serve basis and average less than 30 minutes from the time they arrive until they depart. Versus the emergency rooms treat patients based on the severity of condition. Patients with life-threatening injuries go first. The average time from arrival to departure is 2 hours, 15 minutes. Of my own experience don’t go to a hospital emergency room for minor things that can be taken care of at an urgent care center that provides much quicker services than an emergency room.
You don’t what to have an all nighter on a hospital chair then don’t go to the emergency room because you will be there all night before you are call into a room. Myself as a patient I recommend and prefer the urgent care center versus the ER. Urgent care has taken care of me quickly with a low cost in visit versus the times that I’ve gone to the ER paid a high co payment and just end up walking out without the care because of the ridiculous wait times and the amount of time that they kept me in a room just to charge up my insurance for supposedly treating me which was me just laying there waiting to be treated. Think about it if an ambulance comes in with a patient who is severely hurt or critically ill than those patients will be taken care of before a minority patient and this has been my case the times that I’ve gone into the ER even when I was an employee of the hospital I would still be treated the same. Now I don’t even bother I just make an urgent care
appointment.

But the discussion of whether to go to an emergency room or urgent care center to receive after-hours medical treatment should revolve around cost and the severity of a patient’s condition, but surprisingly, the ultimate decision is often made for convenience. People want medical treatment at whatever time and whatever place they can get it. The cost difference alone should be enough to encourage people to go to urgent care centers. This is a great example as to why I will continue going to urgent care and then follow up with my primary care doctor. The following estimated costs were prepared by Medica Choice Network for nine of the most common reasons people visit the ER. They were determined by calculating the average number on claims submitted in 2010 to the Medica Choice Network, a system of more than 4,000 medical offices, clinics and hospitals across four Midwestern states which is probably the same in Eastern States.