Tom Charland, Merchant Medicine Founder and Former CEO, Announces 14th Annual ConvUrgentCare Symposium: I am excited to announce that registration is now open for the 14th Annual ConvUrgentCare® Symposium, taking place on September 6-9, 2022 in Scottsdale, Arizona at the iconic Hotel Valley Ho....

Texas Health Resources has launched a new urgent care model that offers patients a personalized experience from the moment they walk through the door....

The urgent care industry has grown significantly over the last 10 years, with lots of smart money flowing into the sector from private equity, publicly traded health insurance companies and large health systems....

Someone once asked me why I write so often about primary care when Merchant Medicine’s focus as a consulting firm is urgent care strategy, development and operations. It is a very legitimate question, and one that naturally leads to what I believe is a roadmap of how primary care and urgent care will evolve over the next few years....

While researching this article, I came across the following quotes: one from a doctor and one from a patient: From the doctor: “The inability to control the way we practice medicine and deliver care to patients is the reason that physicians are leaving medicine in record numbers. I can tell you that on an ordinary working day, if I didn’t have a single patient to see, I would still be busy for eight or nine hours doing nothing but paperwork and phone calls that are directly related to managed-care issues.”...