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5 reasons docs may want to extend their office hours

November 29, 2016

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Today’s patients want to schedule an appointment very much the same way they buy running shoes on Amazon or book a trip on Travelocity. They want the same convenience they enjoy as consumers. But many doctors find their practices also benefit when they extend their office hours.

To compete with retail health providers, such as CVS Health and American Family Care, and keep patients out of the emergency room, Lawrence, Kansas-based Family Medicine Associates opens its doors at 7 a.m. each weekday—and offers a walk-in clinic for current patients and the general public alike, reports Medical Economics.

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