Medical Surge and the Role of Urgent Care Centers

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. 03/2018 This 46-page document from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) reports on interviews with urgent care physicians and administrators associated with urgent care centers in 44 states to collect their perceptions on the role their urgent care centers could play in the nation ' s healthcare preparedness and response activities. It summarizes lessons learned by those with disaster experience and suggestions that interviewees had for improving the readiness of urgent care centers. It also identifies a preliminary list of resources for urgent care centers. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 24, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news