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2. Urgent care center - Wikipedia

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   While urgent care centers are usually not open 24 hours a day, 70% of centers in the United States open by 8:00 a.m. or earlier and 95% close after 7:00 p.m. As of 2014, the urgent care industry is worth an estimated $14.5 billion. Distribution

3. Golden hour (medicine) - Wikipedia

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   Golden hour (medicine) The golden hour is the period of time immediately after a traumatic injury during which there is the highest likelihood that prompt medical and surgical treatment will prevent death. [1] [2] While initially defined as an hour, the exact time period depends on the nature of the injury and can be more than or less than this ...

4. Emergency department - Wikipedia

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   The main patient area inside the Mobile Medical Unit operated in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own ...

5. New 24-hour urgent care centre opens in town - AOL

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   A new 24-hour urgent treatment centre is opening in a town, with other care services nearby also extending their opening hours. Health bosses said it was hoped Middlesbrough Urgent Treatment ...

6. Emergency medicine - Wikipedia

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   Emergency care must be available every hour of every day and requires a doctor to be available on-site 24/7, unlike an outpatient clinic or other hospital departments with more limited hours and may only call a physician in when needed.

7. Emergency medical services in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Freedom House Ambulance Service was the first emergency medical service in the United States to be staffed by paramedics with medical training beyond basic first aid. [24] In the late 1960s, Dr. R Adams Cowley was instrumental in the creation of the country's first statewide EMS program, in Maryland. The system was called the Division of ...