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unning, jumping, climbing,
playing. Those are the things
that healthy active kids (and
adults) do. Unfortunately, the
sounds of laughter and joy that
accompany healthy activities are also occa-
How to Succeed With Outpatient Trauma
Jim Burger | Contributing Editor
Position your facility as an urgent care center that can send
the boy with the fractured arm home in a cast, not a sling.
• ADD-ON TRAUMA CASE The key to adding outpatient trauma care to your facility is having the flexibility to diagnose
and treat patients in the hours or days after they sustained their injury. urgent care with surgical repair thrown in.
sionally accompanied
by the snap, crackle
and pop of bones and
tendons. Rather than
head to the hospital
emergency room or
urgent care center in
the strip mall, a grow-
ing number of
patients are seeking
out care — and next-
day appointments
with orthopods — at
outpatient surgical
facilities. We talked to
several facilties who
are triaging and treat-
ing sidelined warriors
about the keys to suc-
cess.
'It's all about
access'
A few years ago, as
urgent care centers
were popping up