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Aspirus Health is a non-profit health system headquartered in Wausau, Wisconsin. The system includes 19 hospitals and serves portions of Wisconsin, Minnesota and the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan. [1] [2] It was previously known as Community Health Care. [3] Aspirus and Saint Luke's Duluth became a combined organization in March 2024.
In 1920, the privately owned Medford Clinic and Hospital was established by Dr. Conrad E. Nystrum (1869–1923), who had begun his medical practice in Medford in 1892. Despite an expansion in 1932 to 34 beds, the clinic-hospital often struggled to accommodate as many as 50 patients at one time.
As of December 2015, there are more than 2,000 retail clinics located in 41 states and Washington, DC in the United States. [2] Retail clinics are staffed by physician assistants or nurse practitioners and most are open seven days a week – twelve hours a day during the workweek and eight hours a day on the weekend. [3]
While urgent care centers are usually not open 24 hours a day, 70% of centers in the United States open by 8:00 a.m. or earlier and 95% close after 7:00 p.m. [13] A patient waiting room at an urgent care clinic in North Carolina. As of 2014, the urgent care industry is worth an estimated $14.5 billion. [14]
A State Farm Insurance sign on a destroyed building during the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (Michael Nigro—Bloomberg)
A walk-in clinic (also known as a walk-in centre) is a medical facility that accepts patients on a walk-in basis and with no appointment required. A number of healthcare service providers fall under the walk-in clinic umbrella including urgent care centers , retail clinics and even many free clinics or community health clinics.
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