urgent care

American  

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.

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Etymology

Origin of urgent care

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

"The NHS is issuing immediate guidance to hospitals to ensure trauma and urgent care can safely continue, enable the use of alternative suppliers where possible and to support prioritisation of orthopaedic waiting lists based on patients' needs over the coming weeks."

From BBC

It also said it wants to reduce delays for patients requiring less urgent care as far as possible.

From BBC

She was eventually airlifted by her insurance company north-east to Tenerife in the Canary Islands for urgent care on 16 October and died in the early hours of the next day.

From BBC

One man with a serious heart condition had not seen a cardiologist, and the other needed needed urgent care related to what he feared was prostate cancer.

From Los Angeles Times

The infected person visited a gym in Ladera Ranch on Jan. 23 and an urgent care facility on Jan. 23 and 26.

From Los Angeles Times