HCA Virginia purchases BetterMed Urgent Care centers
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HCA Virginia Health System, through its parent company HCA Healthcare, announced June 2 that it had purchased 12 BetterMed Urgent Care centers located throughout the Metro Richmond area, Fredericksburg, and Charlotte, North Carolina. HCA Virginia Health System will operate 10 of the Virginia BetterMed urgent care centers, which will join their three CareNow Urgent Care centers in Northern Virginia.
“For almost 10 years, BetterMed Urgent Care has served their communities with compassionate, high quality, efficient care,” said Tim McManus, HCA Healthcare Capital Division president. “The addition of these urgent care centers to our HCA Virginia Health System family will complement our already robust network and help us provide more access for our patients to receive care that is close to home.”
The addition of these urgent care centers will expand HCA Healthcare’s network of urgent care centers to more than 240 nationwide, with 13 in Virginia, including three CareNow urgent care centers currently operating in Northern Virginia.
BetterMed, founded in 2012 by five emergency room physicians, is based in the Richmond region and has more than 200 employees.
