urgent care

noun

1. medical care and services provided, typically in an urgent care center, to people with urgent but not serious medical problems:

   access to urgent care.

2. urgent care center.

Word History and Origins

Origin of urgent care¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

Doctors at the urgent care site he visited sent him home with medications and asked him to return if his condition worsened.

From Washington Post

In early January, Valles went to a local urgent care after his condition deteriorated.

From Time

After my return flight to Cleveland, I kept my promise to my doctor and visited an urgent care.

From Time

The totals don’t include residents who were poisoned but did not seek care or those who were treated at hospitals and urgent care clinics that do not voluntarily report data to the state.

From ProPublica

At least 11 deaths have been confirmed and more than 1,400 people sought care at emergency rooms and urgent care clinics for carbon monoxide poisoning during the weeklong Texas outage, just 400 shy of the total for 2020.

From ProPublica

Ryan McGarry M.D., director of the documentary Code Black, addresses the dismal state of urgent care.

From The Daily Beast

Urgent-care clinics are springing up in retail stores across the country.

From The Daily Beast

Over the past several years, the popularity of urgent-care (or “retail”) clinics has risen dramatically.

From The Daily Beast

It soon became evident that our mineral resources should receive equal though less urgent care.

From Project Gutenberg