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urgent care
noun
- medical care and services provided, typically in an urgent care center, to people with urgent but not serious medical problems:
access to urgent care.
Word History and Origins
Origin of urgent care1
Example Sentences
Doctors told her family that if her mother had not taken her to urgent care that morning, she would not have survived.
Naomi Fraga, director of conservation programs at the California Botanic Garden, said she’s had staffers who have had to head to urgent care after a day’s work to get treated for poodle-dog exposure “because it was so bad.”
Urgent care facilities were an early medtail use, followed by veterinarians and then dentists, Scardina said.
After several visits to her GP and dentist she was referred to her local hospital for an ultrasound and she was red-flagged as needing urgent care.
From the trenches of the emergency department or urgent care, the waters will be muddied.
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