Immediate MedCare Redefines Urgent Care in the Southeast: Opening Newest Center In August

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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 9, 2010 -- Atlanta, GA- June 9, 2010- Upscale urgent care center, Immediate MedCare, will open the doors of its newest center on Monday, August 2, 2010. The 3,700 sq. ft. center will be located at 526 Maddox Dr., Suite 101, Ellijay, GA 30540. This is a new addition to its 2 ½ year old Blue Ridge office located on the lobby level of Riverstone Medical Campus on GA 515.

Unique Business Model Fills Void of Affordable, Upscale Care

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Immediate MedCare Redefines Urgent Care in the Southeast: Opening Newest Center In August

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Immediate MedCare centers offer an upscale alternative to long waits in emergency rooms and primary care physicians’ offices. Staffed with board-certified physicians, physician extenders and others skilled in all aspects of ambulatory urgent care, Immediate MedCare centers are open seven days a week, with extended hours (like typical mall hours) and use state-of-the-art, computerized medical management systems that allow for an unparalleled level of patient care. Immediate MedCare (IMC) centers are committed to bringing health care to a new level, redefining the standard of quality and comfort in healthcare with an upscale experience: cable TVs in the exam rooms, free refreshments, including Starbucks coffee in large, well-appointed reception areas, and paperless systems. “Patients will always fell like VIPs,” according to Founder and CEO, Jordan Rice.

The opening of the newest Immediate MedCare facility is the most recent step forward in this progressive chain’s initiative to open 24 new centers throughout the metro Atlanta and North Georgia, 10 in Huntsville, 10 in Birmingham, Alabama, and more in Tennessee and the Carolinas—all with IMC’s unprecedented standard of excellence in care, paperless systems, prepaid monthly healthcare plans, and onsite physician dispensing through InstyMeds. Immediate MedCare is already a strategic partner with the chain of nine Physician Care urgent care facilities, located throughout the greater Chattanooga, Tennessee area, and is aligned with eight area hospitals—Patients are regularly referred to a doctor or specialist of their choice, insurance panel, or worker’s compensation insurance firm, at leading hospitals such as: Fannin Regional, Piedmont Mountainside, Kennestone and its Wellstar affiliates, Atlanta Medical Center, Children’s Hospital, Emory, Northside, Piedmont’s main campus, and St. Joseph’s. The Blue Ridge, Georgia IMC center is already thriving, since opening in November, 2008.

IMC’s Electronic Management System Puts the Focus Back on the Patient

The streamlined medical management system employed by Immediate MedCare is one facet making the model of urgent care centers truly forward-thinking. The system links all centers and specialists to whom patients are referred into one “intranet” so that records can be located quickly and securely at any center location. The extensive use of high-tech, paperless, communications systems cuts down on billing and medical errors, gives the doctor and staff more “face time” with the patients and controls costs for patients, payers, and corporate HR executives. This lowers the cost of care and allows these upscale centers to be affordable and provide better service and short or no wait times.

Since waiting 2 hours or more for a routine visit to the traditional doctor's office and having to fill out pages of paperwork in a cold, stark environment is a frustration to which everyone can relate, Immediate MedCare urgent care centers present a remedy whose time has come.

Using HIPAA-compliant, paperless systems, including electronic medical records and automated billing through the “Patient Portal”, patients can request and receive appointment reminders by email, request and review lab reports, examine statements, request prescription refills, enter or modify personal information, view a list of current and past referrals and more, from the comfort and convenience of their home or work computer.

About the CEO

Jordan Rice is a premier resource for expertise on urgent care, computerization and compliance in the new HIPAA era. He previously served as an international, educational delegate to a Non-Governmental Organization at the United Nations and is published regularly in Health Data Management and Health Technology Review. He is the former Chairman of the Georgia Strategic Local Implementation Program (GSLIP) Committee on HIPAA Implementation and has become a national speaker and resource for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). He recently served as Chairman of the GSLIP Committee on eHealth Initiatives for the State of Georgia and as Chairman of the 13 southeastern states SHARP Workgroup Committee on Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs). In addition, he has been a keynote speaker at COMDEX and many medical conventions on urgent care medicine and healthcare informatics.

For more information on Immediate MedCare, including images, tour requests and interview opportunities, contact Public Relations 3.0, Angela Braden (310) 309-7046 or angela@publicrelations30.com

More information can be found online at http://www.immediate-medcare.com

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