- Rural health clinics, suburban urgent care centers and satellite clinics with rotating specialists have helped bring quality health care close to home.
The additional entry points have the overall goal of increasing access to health care while reducing wait times and congestion at larger facilities, including emergency rooms.
"One of the problems we have in the United States and in Pennsylvania is access to care," said Dr. Nick Colovos, regional medical director for MedExpress Urgent Care.
"That is one of the greatest things we are able to bring to a community is access to care by giving patients an option."
MedExpress center opened in August at 1221 Scalp Ave., in the Richland Plaza. It bills itself as a full-service, walk-in health care clinic offering medical treatment to all ages for illness and injury. "MedExpress always has a physician on site," Colovos said.
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