Patients are flocking to urgent-care clinics.
Now hospitals are, too-
By Brigid Sweeney Modern Healthcare
Immediate-care clinics offer more than just speedy stitches and X-rays. For several Chicago-area health systems, they also provide a quick path to growth, so regional hospitals are doubling down on them—and spooking private players that have dominated the local market to date.
"The healthcare systems have been a little slow to grow in the city," says Sarah Cogswell, a senior vice president in the healthcare practice of real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle. "But as millennials continue to drive population growth, the systems are responding."
Historically, hospitals have tried to increase referrals to their affiliated specialists—and therefore their own bottom lines—by opening primary-care practices. Now, though, more hospitals are looking to drum up business through urgent care, which introduces relatively healthy people to their networks at a fraction of the cost of hiring family docs. Read full article HERE.
"The healthcare systems have been a little slow to grow in the city," says Sarah Cogswell, a senior vice president in the healthcare practice of real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle. "But as millennials continue to drive population growth, the systems are responding."
Historically, hospitals have tried to increase referrals to their affiliated specialists—and therefore their own bottom lines—by opening primary-care practices. Now, though, more hospitals are looking to drum up business through urgent care, which introduces relatively healthy people to their networks at a fraction of the cost of hiring family docs. Read full article HERE.
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