Dayton's Largest Urgent Care & Occ-Med Company Has Now Become Ohio's Largest Urgent Care & Occ-Med Company!

Dayton based, Hometown Urgent Care & Workcare Center is not only Dayton’s largest, but also Ohio’s largest Urgent Care and Occupational Health Company.  Hometown now has 12 full-service locations in Ohio, 9 of which are in Dayton, Xenia and surrounding cities. Hometown facilities are open 7 days a week and are fully equipped with onsite X-ray, Labs, prescription services, PFT, BAT and more, to provide comprehensive and compassionate urgent care and occupational health services to Ohio communities.

Headquartered in Dayton, OH, Hometown Urgent Care & WorkCare has gone through tremendous growth spurt within the last year. Hometown has doubled in size, since then (increasing its facilities from 6 locations to 12 locations). Some of the new additions to the Hometown Family include communities like Springfield, Lebanon, and Clayton besides rapid growth in the City of Columbus. Five of Hometown’s six new facilities were opened in the last four months. “These are very exciting times for the urgent care industry, in general, and for Hometown Urgent Care & WorkCare Centers in particular. Full Service Urgent Care centers are saving billions of dollars across the nation by reducing Emergency Room visits for non-life threatening injuries and illnesses,” stated Manoj Kumar, JD, CPA, CEO of the Hometown Urgent Care & WorkCare Centers.

Hometown was formed in 2005 with a vision to be one of the leading Urgent Care and Occupational Health Companies in the nation. “The urgent care industry is destined to grow because the patients and employers want healthcare on their own schedule and at an affordable price. Hometown can meet these expectations,” stated Chris Hale, Regional Marketing Manager for Hometown. “The reasons for Hometown’s success are its ability to deliver comprehensive urgent care and Occ-med services with a total consumer driven approach and at a price which is unbeatable. Plus no one covers Dayton and Miami Valley like we do. We reduce travel and wait time for our occ-med clients significantly,” added Mr. Hale.

Hometown’s facilities bring many advantages for Dayton community. First of all, with nine Dayton locations, Hometown provides easy access 7 days a week for urgent care and occ-med services to the communities. Second, Hometown’s facilities are equipped with onsite X-ray, Labs, prescriptions, and EKG’s and are staffed with highly trained physicians and healthcare professions. This allows Hometown to be the one-stop for all urgent care and occupational health needs. Hometown treats all minor illnesses, such as, colds, coughs, infections, flu, pneumonia, minor injuries, minor fractures, lacerations, minor burns etc…and many more different types of ailments for all ages. In addition, Hometown offers sport physicals, TB shots, flu shots, preventative screenings like cholesterol, diabetes and much more. For area employers, Hometown has an industry-leading, comprehensive Occupational Health Services business model, including on-site services. All of Hometown’s facilities are DOT and BWC certified and offer DOT/Non-DOT drug screens, physicals, work injury care, respiratory tests, hearing tests, on-site physical therapy and much more. “Our goal is to save time and money for local employers. We have a fast-track process for occupational-medicine patients. We guarantee drug screens in 30 minutes or less!

It is amazing that how many employers do not count the real cost of travel and wait time when they calculate the cost of occ-med visits for their staff. Hometown can save up to $40 per occ-med visit, just by reducing travel and wait time for occ-med patients. With our extensive coverage of Dayton and the Miami Valley area, patients don’t have to travel long distances. Plus, with our fast-track process, employees don’t have to wait hours for occ-med services. The savings, literally, could be in thousands.

Urgent care centers like Hometown can solve some of the problems facing our healthcare industry today. Emergency Rooms are over utilized with visits for non-life threatening injuries and illnesses, causing wait times in the emergency rooms to rise an average stay to 4-8 hours. In Ohio, the average wait time in an ER is over 237 minutes. Neither patients nor the ER physicians are happy. An average injury visit to the ER could cost well over a $1000 dollars and co-pays are higher much higher than an urgent care center. This situation is not advantageous for the patients or insurance companies in the current economic climate we are in. Hometown alleviates these problems. When a patient visits (for minor injury or illness) a Hometown facility, the costs are usually less than $250, and the co-pays are lower than the hospital ER. Our patients are usually, in and out, in less than 60 minutes. This is why more and more insurance companies are recommending urgent care facilities like Hometown, for their patients, with non-life threatening conditions to our urgent care centers. “I believe that urgent care services could compliment emergency departments, by providing illness and minor injury care, of which, allows more time for the emergency departments to treat “serious” emergencies, thereby, increasing the satisfaction of patients in the delivery of urgent and immediate medicine,” said Scott Sales, Director of Operations for Hometown.

For more information about Hometown Urgent Care & WorkCare Centers and its services, please visit www.hometownurgentcare.com or contact: Chris Hale, at 937-602-0483 or chrish@daytondoc.com.