By Bill Toland / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette When insurer Highmark Inc. sunk upward of $50 million into the MedExpress Urgent Care chain a year ago, buying a 10 percent stake in the company, MedExpress was valued at somewhere north of $500 million. Today the 11-year-old West Virginia company, with about 90 locations in six states, is…
Written by Brian Duggan The Regional Emergency Medical Services Authority was given $9.9 million by the federal government to create a program that, among other features, will give patients the option of going to an urgent care instead of an emergency room. The program announced Wednesday is projected to save the region $10.5 million…
Urgent message: Establishing a system of metrics and ‘dashboards’ allows the urgent care operator to quantify key success factors and company values that may otherwise be impossible to measure. Metric—function: noun \’me-trik\ def. A standard of measurement – Merriam Webster online dictionary. “What gets measured gets managed.” This pearl of wisdom applies…