If you have some minor injuries or have some regular illness like flu, cough, fever etc then you don’t need to take an appointment to the doctor and wait for a week to get served. Now the time has changed, Walk-in clinics which are also called Retail Health Clinics are offering best and time saving health care facilities for such types of injuries and illness. You can easily locate these Walk in Clinics in nearby markets, shopping malls and pharmacies etc. These Walk in Clinics usually face non serious injury and illness. There is some Walk in Clinics available where you don’t need to take any appointment but having many patients at the same time; you have to wait for your turn. This is quite better than waiting for a week. The member of staff in these clinics are limited there is a small staff of nurses along with a nurse practitioner or doctor serves the visitors.

Walk in clinic is a small organization with limited resources and usually their services available for longer time periods in a day. Walk in Clinics can also handle minor emergencies which are not much severe and you do not need to wait for longer time period to get served. These clinics also have a laboratory, X-Ray and Ultrasound facility for instant treatment and cure. Now, there are over 1,000 (Walk in Clinic) situated all over the United States. Majority clinics usually serve their patient seven days a week and their time duration is normally twelve hours a day throughout the workweek and eight hours a day on the weekends. These Walk in Clinics are increasing day by day due to their time saving treatment and their cost effective nature.

Walk in clinics offer helpful health services like health screening, vaccinations, and physical tests. Sometimes, if necessary they send samples0 of blood, urine and feces for laboratory tests. Now many Walk in Clinics have their own laboratory but if they don’t have it they if they send these samples to some well-known labs to get the complete investigation details. Usually walk in clinics provide instant health care services for these common family illnesses;

• Cold and Flu

• Sinus Transmissions or Upper Respiratory Transmissions

• Allergies

• Dental Care

• Minor Accidental Injuries, Burns, Sprains and Rashes

• Bladder Infections

• Pink Eye or Styles

• Sore or Strip Throat

• Headaches

• Influenza and Usual Cold Symptoms

• Head lice

• Ringworms

• Minor Injuries

• Medicine or Chemical response

• Warts

• Sprains and Strains

• Skin Conditions, Such as Warts or Eczema

• Bronchitis

• Ear Infections, Earache and Fever

• Flu or Tetanus Vaccinations

• Pregnancy Tests

• Urinary Tract Infections

• Diarrhea and Intestinal Transmissions

If you have such type of life threatening emergencies then it is advised to go for hospital emergency instead of clinics;

• Serious Chest Pain and Shortness of Breath

• Major Burns

• Life Threatening Head Traumas

• Emergency Childbirth

• Seizures

• Bleeding that does not stop

• Drug over Dose or other Toxic situation

• Life Threatening Injuries

Undoubtedly, Walk in clinics is offering best instant health care facilities in US. Now many organizations are promoting their customers to use these health services of Walk in clinics. The Urgent Care Association of America recognized a criterion for Walk in clinics in April 2009. This criterion describes range of service, hours of process, and staff requirements