Urgent care centers also offer an opportunity to attract patients in the face of declining inpatient volume, according to the report.
Here are some recent investments by health systems and hospitals in urgent care centers in the Philadelphia region, according to the report:
• Three private equity firms expressed interest in partnering with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to open urgent care centers, but the hospital declined. The hospital plans to use a specialty care center in Mays Landing, N.J., as an urgent care center evenings and weekends, according to the report.
• Since the fall, for-profit urgent care centers Patient First, Doctors Express and MedExpress opened in the Philadelphia region.
• Camden, N.J.-based Cooper University Health Care and Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua opened urgent care centers in South Jersey.
• Camden, N.J.-based Lourdes Health System plans to add urgent care to its new Cherry Hill, N.J., facility.
• Philadelphia-based Temple University Health System opened two urgent care centers and plans to open a third this summer.
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