Questions for Dr. Stern
About Your Urgent Care Center
65. I have a place 20' x 50'. Could this be adequate to start an urgent care center?
An area of only 1,000 sq ft for an urgent care center will be very limiting. You will not be able to get enough exam rooms to maximize your efficiency and be able to see ~50 patients per day. At any given time on a typical day in an urgent care center, you may have one patient with the nurse for a DOT physical, one laceration in another room, a patient waiting for an x-ray, and a patient waiting for strep test results. Four rooms are already occupied; you need another room to see a patient and another room for a nurse to be signing in a patient. So you will need a minimum of six rooms to even begin to work efficiently. To get to a minimum of six rooms, you will probably need over 2,200 sq ft, as you need a larger trauma room, general clinical area, storage, reception room, receptionist area, break room, etc.
The owners of Practice Velocity, LLC, also, operate Physicians Immediate Care with 10 urgent care centers in (~45% occ med) in Illinois and Oklahoma. We would be delighted to host your team for a full-day tour of our urgent care centers. Over 300 urgent care professionals toured our urgent care operations in 2007. During the tour, we outline our entire operation, including:
- Reception
- Marketing
- Site selection
- Added services
- Occupational medicine
- Patient flow
- Whatever else you wish to review
Our other affiliated companies include:
- Practice Velocity: serving 238 urgent care/occ med clinics in the USA
- National Med Network: offering various consulting services for urgent care centers.
Feel free to call and schedule a no-cost, no-obligation, all-day visit to our urgent care headquarters (only one hour from O’Hare Airport) or to schedule a phone discussion. Ask for Dana (ext 2051) or Tina (ext 2052).
