GoHealth Urgent Care, Hartford HealthCare partner to extend urgent care services throughout Connecticut
Two providers plan to open 15 co-branded centers beginning in spring 2017 during the first 18-month phase of their partnership.
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GoHealth Urgent Care and Connecticut's Hartford HealthCare will join forces to extend GoHealth Urgent Care's urgent care center network to Central and Eastern Connecticut.
The two providers plan to open 15 centers beginning in spring 2017 during the first 18-month phase of their partnership. Each Hartford HealthCare-GoHealth Urgent Care center will treat patients seven days a week with extended evening hours, walk-in availability, and online check-in so that patients can save a place "in line."
"The partnership will provide patients greater access to innovative high-quality care, where and when they need it most," GoHealth said in a statement.
The centers will feature electrostatic "smart glass" procedure rooms, transparent charting on a wide screen in each exam room, mobile X-ray equipment and a unified electronic medical record that can be accessed by caregivers across the Hartford HealthCare network, GoHealth said.
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GoHealth Urgent Care operates roughly 60 urgent care centers in the New York and Portland, OR, and San Francisco Bay areas. GoHealth Urgent Care's current partners include Northwell Health, Legacy Health, Dignity Health, one of the nation's largest health care systems, headquartered in San Francisco, and now Hartford HealthCare.
Hartford HealthCare includes a tertiary-care teaching hospital, an acute care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and trauma center, two community hospitals, behavioral health services, a primary care physician practice group, as well as cancer centers, regional and senior home care and physical therapy rehabilitation.
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