Tacoma, Wash.-based CHI Franciscan Health and CityMD, an urgent care provider based in New York City, have partnered to open urgent care locations in the Pacific Northwest.
So far, CityMD has more than 50 locations in the northeast. CityMD centers provide year-round, seven-day-a-week urgent care services.
Under the partnership, which will take effect in summer 2016, CityMD will expand CHI Franciscan's current sites for primary and urgent care.
CityMD offers a proprietary service called Aftercare, which is staffed by physicians, clinicians and referral coordinators. After receiving care from a CityMD urgent care center, members of the Aftercare team make follow-up calls to each patient to see how they responded to treatment. If a patient needs to see a specialist, additional tests or services from a physician or hospital, Aftercare arranges the patient's appointment.