Healthcentric Advisors Develops Guidelines for Urgent Care Settings

摘要

PROVIDENCE – With seven MinuteClinics slated to open theirdoors in late 2014, newly published standards for urgent carecenters’ communication may help ease primary care providers’concerns. Healthcentric Advisors led a collaborativeprocess with providers and stakeholders to develop Safe TransitionsBest Practice Measures for Urgent Care Centers, thefirst-known standards for urgent care communication duringpatient care transitions. The newly developed best practices:? Are the first to define standards for urgent carecommunication with primary care? Address primary care providers’ concerns about urgentcare interfering with team-based care? Establish consistent expectations for urgent care centersacross the state