Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. has launched a national brand of urgent care centers, MedPost Urgent Care, as part of a growing network of urgent care facilities.
Currently, 23 MedPost Urgent Care centers are open in eight states: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas. Tenet plans to double the number of centers by the end of this year.
The MedPost centers are part of Tenet's 190 outpatient facilities. They are staffed by primary care, internal medicine and emergency medicine physicians, as well as nurse practitioners and other health professionals. The centers have imaging and lab capabilities as well.
"The move to grow our urgent care business, along with our entire portfolio of outpatient facilities, is part of Tenet's broader corporate strategy to offer more services to patients and to expand into faster-growing, less capital intensive, higher-margin businesses," said Kyle Burtnett, Tenet's senior vice president of outpatient services, in a news release.
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