1. My partners and I are going to start an urgent care in California. Do you offer any publications that may help answer our many questions about starting an urgent care?
There really are not any good written publications on this subject, but you can get CDs of the “Urgent Care Startup” track from the Fall UCAOA Conference.
You are welcome to take advantage of Practice Velocity in your quest to learn more. We help startups in many different ways, including:
Offering free full day tours of our urgent care center business—Physicians Immediate Care. We operate 12 centers in Illinois and Oklahoma. We entertained around 300 visitors in 2007.
Offering free tours of and information sessions on our startup consulting business (National Med Network), which has worked with over 50 startup urgent care centers in the last few years. They can give you cookie cutter pro-formas and financial projections and help you with every aspect of starting a center. Patrice Pash, RN is the lead consultant and usually spends half of the day with tour visitors (I usually devote the other half of the day to the tours).
