An urgent care clinic can be one of those places depending on what you need. But how do you know when to go to the emergency room or make an appointment with your primary care provider instead of ...

One doctor at Reading Hospital is offering tips to help you make the right choice when seasonal illnesses strike.

it can be difficult to determine whether to seek care at an urgent care clinic or an emergency room. Dr. Erik Dukes, who has worked as a family medicine physician at the Booneville Medical Clinic ...

Doctors’ offices, urgent care facilities, and emergency rooms in Region 8 are full of patients with the flu, but doctors say to keep the ER for emergencies only.

Research shows free-standing ER bills can be up to 10 times the cost of a comparable visit to an urgent care center, primarily because of a facility fee charged by hospitals. The teacher ...

LOCAL: Kalamazoo approves $12.3M deal for sustainable biosolids management technology "The problem becomes when people are sort of using the ER as their primary care or more as an urgent care ...

As it gets harder to see a local primary care doctor, residents are increasingly overloading facilities that aren’t meant for that specific use.

Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health is floating the idea of possibly converting the hospital’s emergency room into an urgent care facility, in an attempt to provide an alternative healthcare ...

Augusta Health advises seeking treatment at urgent care for mild to moderate flu symptoms to help alleviate strain on emergency departments. Urgent care centers are equipped to test for the flu ...