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For many Americans, a hospital emergency department is the first thought that comes to mind when they need urgent medical care or a medical procedure. However, Chicago Immediate Care offers an alternative. This is one of the growing number of immediate care centers that delivers ambulatory care in a facility providing medical care outside of a hospital emergency department environment, all on a walk-in, unscheduled basis. Ambulatory care refers to a wide range of medical services, outside of what may first be imagined. Chicago Immediate Care delivers medical care on an outpatient basis for medical conditions that can be managed without hospital admission. Examples of medical investigations that can be performed under ambulatory care include x-rays, endoscopy, blood tests, and even biopsy procedures to examine superficial organs.

The Urgent Care Association of America reports that there are now over an estimated 15,000 urgent care centers that provide immediate care to patients in the United States of America. These facilities serve to diagnose and treat medical conditions that are not quite severe enough to warrant a trip to a hospital emergency room, but still necessitate medical treatment past normal family physician office hours or before an appointment with a physician can be made. The large number of immediate care centers alone shows that more and more Americans are choosing to visit these facilities to receive medical treatment. One of the main decision makers is that urgent care centers tend to be much more affordable than hospital emergency departments. Although life-threatening medical conditions should still be handled through hospital admission and immediate care centers do not offer twenty-four/seven hours, many of the medical reasons that Americans visit hospitals for can be just as well handled at an immediate care facility, for much cheaper! Consider the options and the reasons to become one of the many Americans who have visited an urgent care center become clear.