We have tons around here. Our local franchise is PatientFirst. I LOVE them. They know me all too well; people joke that anyone going there should just “show them your OlLineRebel card”.
We have others that are not as good as PF, although they are also franchises (mostly). They’re not even as good for hours because they only operate till 5, etc. PF always runs until 10, every single day.
But, I have experience with most of them.
I think I used a broad brush. I am sure some of these clinics are good. Good luck.
Patient first does a nice job.
We opened an urgent care center across the street from our hospital.
It’s open 18 hours a day. Mainly it reduces the over utilization in our hospital emergency room due to a lack of primary care physicians in our area. We basically break even on the operation but the reduction of 15,000
visits to our hospital e. r. has allowed us to defer a very expensive expansion of our e.r.
We don’t look at it as a profit center per se, but as a way to more efficiently provide primary care in an underserved area. We have found that we can provide about 80% of what a primary care doc practice can.
We take walk ins and self pay patients as well.