Urgent Care Center and Retail Health Clinic Utilization Among Children: United States, 2019.

In recent years, urgent care centers and health clinics within grocery or retail stores have been delivering health care services to an increasing number of children and adults (1-3). Urgent care centers and retail health clinics may be able to deliver preventive care, such as routine vaccinations, and nonemergency acute or after-hours care (3-5). This report describes the utilization of urgent care centers or retail health clinics in 2019 among children aged 0-17 years in the past 12 months by selected characteristics. All material appearing in this report is in the public domain and may be reproduced or copied without permission; citation as to source, however, is appreciated.