Urgent care facilities are designed to benefit just about anyone who needs urgent medical attention–as long as the condition is not life threatening (heart attack, stroke, knife wounds to the chest or heart, and severed limbs are good examples). The ultimate goal is to provide care to individuals who need medical attention but do not require the services of an emergency room.

Urgent care offices typically operate far past the normal business hours of general practitioners–late into the evening and even on weekends and holidays.

By offering these services, they make it easy for a person to get the medical attention they need without waiting in line at a sometimes overcrowded emergency room. Urgent care facilities provide a cost effective method to accessing medical care for patients who do not have insurance.