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  • How to Deal With Differing Degrees of Medical Danger

    By  Accelerated Urgent Care

    Life is filled with many different dangers. Some are extreme, some are minor. It is how one copes with those dangers that defines health and happiness. Knowing the difference between an emergency and an urgent issue can save both time…

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  • 5 Tools Every Parent Needs For Sick Days

    By  Accelerated Urgent Care

    Parenting is hard enough without having to deal with sick children. From packing school lunches to drawn-out bedtime rituals, parents rarely have it easy. When your kids get sick, though, life takes an even more trying turn. So, what are…

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  • How to Face Your Child’s First Cold Like a Champ

    By  Accelerated Urgent Care

    Having a sick kid isn't good for anyone. As a parent, you feel sympathetic to their current condition, yet in order to best take care of them, you need to stay healthy yourself. Doing this takes skill, practice, and the…

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  • 3 Simple Steps to Follow If You Catch the Flu

    By  Accelerated Urgent Care

    The common cold is pretty darn common. Each year, Americans catch approximately one billion colds. Each one will vary in severity, and each person will respond to getting sick differently, but on the whole, colds are fairly innocuous. The flu,…

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  • 3 Places In Your New Community That You Must Be

    By  Accelerated Urgent Care

    When you move to a new community, there's always a lot to do. First, there's the move itself, then settling in, then learning the area. As you are becoming more comfortable at home, learning the area becomes the most important…

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  • The Proper Times To Use Urgent Care and Emergency Rooms

    By  Accelerated Urgent Care

    Knowing when to use urgent care centers for medical treatment is important in a not-quite health emergency. The difference between urgent and emergency care plays a role in the availability of certain types of treatments, the price of treatment, and…

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  • Good Foods to Feed Your Sick Toddler

    By  Accelerated Urgent Care

    Being a new parent is so exciting but can also be scary. You've read all the parenting books, taken all the classes, and always listen to your doctors. You feel as prepared as possible. Unfortunately, life is not something that…

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  • Finding What Urgent Care Can Do In A New Area

    By  Accelerated Urgent Care

    A private study conducted by Milliman revealed that between 44% and 65% of all ER episodes could've been taken care of in an urgent care clinic. Unfortunately, many people simply aren't aware what urgent care is, and where the centers…

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  • 5 Ways Urgent Care Centers Are Reshaping Healthcare

    By  Accelerated Urgent Care

    Did you know that according to Urgent Care Association of America's estimates, 3 million patients visit urgent care centers every week? That's a lot of people visiting neighborhood walk-in clinics instead of a hospital emergency room, and for good reason.…

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  • Never Been To Urgent Care? Here’s What You Need To

    By  Accelerated Urgent Care

    Going to the hospital can be an incredibly long and painful process, and not just when you're in a life or death situation. Many individuals think the only option for after-hours care is the emergency room, but this is not…

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