GoHealth Urgent Care of Atlanta and Mercy of Chesterfield, Missouri, announced Wednesday that they have partnered to create a network of more than 30 co-branded “Mercy-GoHealth” urgent care centers across the Midwest over the next two years.
The joint venture will provide patients in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma with greater access to urgent care through technology and patient tools. It will begin serving Mercy communities this summer.
Retail locations will open throughout northwest Arkansas, St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri; and Oklahoma City.
Each Mercy-GoHealth Urgent Care Center will:
- Operate seven days a week, with extended evening hours;
- Welcome walk-in patients;
- Offer online pre-registration and check-in;
- Feature electrostatic “smart glass” procedure rooms and transparent charting on a wide screen in each exam room;
- Have mobile x-ray equipment; and
- Use Mercy’s unified electronic health record.
The companies said that using integrated electronic health records will allow caregivers across the Mercy system immediate access to relevant and important patient medical history and information, helping ensure continuity and the highest levels of care.
With the additional centers, GoHealth Urgent Care will become one of the nation’s five largest urgent care companies.
“Through robust collaboration and the combination of our respective innovative approaches to care, our joint venture will offer a differentiated and superior level of consumer-focused urgent care that is not currently available in Mercy’s markets …,” GoHealth CEO Todd Latz said in a news release.
Mercy CEO Lynn Britton said the joint venture “further demonstrates Mercy’s leadership and focus on providing quality outcomes for the millions of patients who have entrusted us with their care.”
Mercy has 44 acute care and specialty hospitals, more than 40,000 employees and a multispecialty physician group with more than 2,000 physicians.
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