Halfway through 2014, healthcare's urgent care market has continued its steady growth. As of July 1, 15 hospital urgent care operators added a total of 45 clinics to their portfolios this year through transactions or opening new clinics, according to data from Merchant Medicine.
Here are the hospital urgent care operators that added clinics so far this year.
Tenet MedPost (Dallas) — 25 clinics
Advocate Health (Downers Grove, Ill.) — 5
Baptist Health of Kentucky (Louisville) — 3
Carolinas HealthCare (Charlotte, N.C.) — 1
Centra Care (Orlando, Fla.) — 1
Columbia St. Mary's (Milwaukee) — 1
Community Health MedCheck (Indianapolis) — 1
Fairview Health (Minneapolis) — 1
Hartford (Conn.) Health — 1
Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic — 1
MedStar PromptCare (Columbia, Md.) — 1
MultiCare (Tacoma, Wash.) — 1
Novant Health (Winston-Salem, N.C.) — 1
Providence Health & Services (Renton, Wash.) — 1
UPMC (Pittsburgh) — 1
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