A growing chorus of frustration about unmet health care needs, particularly in the evening and on weekends, is creating demand for a new kind of medical care, and Berwyn’s Doctor’s Best Immediate Medical Care exemplifies the trending new breed, called urgent care.

“When I worked in the ER, we saw patients coming in for colds because their primary care doctors were too busy to see them,” Dr. Geoff Winkley said in a Main Line Today article. “That’s not good for the patients or the ERs.”

Winkley’s urgent care model focuses on serving patients in those after-hours — all walk-ins, because he doesn’t do appointments. He accepts insurance and sees a lot of return patients, though he doesn’t offer preventative care and long-term case management.

And if a medical need is truly an emergency “beyond the scope of what our facilities can treat, we get them to the nearest emergency room as quickly as possible.”

Read more about the trend toward urgent care and Doctor’s Best in Main Line Today here.

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