Open Forum for Urgent Care Professionals Launches

If you go to any urgent care conference, meeting, gathering, etc., you’ll quickly learn that urgent care professionals are, for the most part, exceptionally open to sharing their knowledge of and experiences in starting and/or running their own urgent care centers. There truly is this spirit of “coop-etition” in which we are always cognizant of the competitiveness of running a business but vividly remember the struggles of being a novice urgent care center in a growing industry.

While willingness to share is certainly not a problem among urgent care professionals, opportunities to engage each other in those conversations are few and far between. Schedules are hectic, and time is always at a premium. However, the value of these conversations cannot be overstated.

That’s why we at Practice Velocity decided it was vital to create a public forum for urgent care professionals to connect with each other outside of the convention circuit that is accessible to anyone with an interest in urgent care – from those who are simply considering a transition to urgent care to urgent care veterans. To achieve this end, we have launched an online forum designed to allow urgent care professionals to connect with each other that is convenient, easily accessible, and free.

Urgent care professionals can access the forum at www.practicevelocity.com/forum. Anyone can view the forum threads, but in order to post a question or an answer, you must register as a user. For those who are on facebook, you can log in with your facebook credentials, which speeds up the registration process and eliminates the need to create a brand new username and password to remember. Users who log in with their facebook credentials also have the option of sharing their favorite threads with their facebook friends.

To kick off the forum, I have added 170-plus answers to questions I have received from others in the urgent care industry. I invite you to explore the plethora of topics that are currently open for discussion and encourage you to join the conversation by asking your own questions and posting your own answers.

For those who prefer a more private discussion arena, the Urgent Care Association of America (UCAOA) offers a highly professional members only forum. Current UCAOA members can access the forum by signing into the UCAOA UConnect Portal. If you’d like to get more information on joining UCAOA, visit the membership page on their website.

We’re excited to be able to offer this new, free tool to urgent care professionals. The forum is currently live, so check it out today at wwww.practicevelocity.com/forum and start connecting with your industry peers!