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Urgent Care: An Integral Part of a Increasingly Complicated Healthcare Landscape
At the core of all healthcare reform initiatives is a desire to improve access to healthcare for all, decrease costs and to improve quality. For a hospital, this can be a seemingly impossible nut to crack when it is expected to provide comprehensive care with all of its accompanying advanced and expensive services. While there […]
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Urgent Medical Care – Not Just a Job, but a Lifestyle
If you’ve ever visited the South Burlington ClearChoiceMD Urgent Care location, there’s a good chance Jim Santorello was involved in your care. He’s a well respected and valued member of the South Burlington team and, as a Nationally Registered Paramedic, he is also a well respected member of the emergency response community. After Hurricane Irma hit the Florida […]
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ClearChoiceMD’s Annual Free Flu Shot Weekend
While autumn brings pumpkins, crunching leaves, and the return of school, it also signals the beginning of cold and flu season. There are many things you can do to cut down on your risk of getting sick including eating a healthy diet, getting plenty of sleep, and washing your hands regularly. You should also get your […]
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New Urgent Care Facility Opens in Alton
ALTON — Residents who can’t get a timely visit to a primary care doc but not needing the emergency attention accompanying an ER visit now have a new option right at the traffic circle. ClearChoiceMD, which opened at the circle on April 11, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week that was attended by local officials […]
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The Truth About Ticks and Prophylactic Antibiotics
With the blossoming of the spring flowers comes another, less savory, aspect of warm weather: Ticks! New England, and Vermont especially, has become synonymous with the words “Lyme Disease”. Originally described as “Lyme Arthritis” in 1977, Lyme Disease was discovered when a cluster of children in Lyme, Connecticut came down with a constellation of symptoms including a […]