Todd Latz, the Chief Executive Officer of GoHealth Urgent Care, was featured this month in amNew York Metro and PoliticsNY’s Power Players in Healthcare. The honor recognizes New York’s most powerful healthcare leaders who have made a significant impact on the healthcare industry.

The issue comprises policymakers, hospital administrators, chief executives, public officials and more. Included in the edition are Northwell Health President and CEO Michael Dowling; Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Boula; and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Founder, President and CEO Leonard Schleifer; among others.

Todd was noted for leading GHUC’s “award-winning, technology-enabled, consumer focused on-demand care model” that is “deeply integrated across the entire continuum of care through its joint ventures with prominent health systems.”

Todd has served as CEO of GoHealth since 2015. In that time, together with the GHUC team, Todd has grown GoHealth to 170+ on-demand care centers across 12 states, including a robust virtual platform and more than 50 centers across the New York market with our dynamic partner, Northwell Health. 

Todd Latz featured in amNew York Metro and PoliticsNY’s Power Players in Healthcare

NEW HYDE PARK, NY – Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care has been honored by the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) with a Pinnacle Award for Quality and Patient Safety. Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care was recognized for its implementation of an antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) across its large-scale urgent care network.

Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care began an antibiotic stewardship program in 2019 to monitor and improve the way antibiotics are prescribed by providers and taken by patients. Within the first year of the program, the network's 52 urgent care centers had shown a 21 percent drop in total antibiotic use, equating to 167,000 fewer antibiotic prescriptions. The stewardship program effectively safeguards patients from antibiotic resistance, side effects and medical costs.

"The overuse of antibiotics has a tremendous impact on the physical and financial health of our patients and community," said Neal Shipley, medical director, Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care. "Nationwide, urgent care centers are responsible for the largest percentage of inappropriate antibiotic usage. It was something that we simply couldn't ignore, and we are proud HANYS has recognized our team's steadfast dedication to our customers."

Paving the way for antibiotic stewardship across the nation

Inappropriate antibiotic use is a national issue, particularly in the urgent care space, where 39 percent of visits result in an antibiotic prescription. Approximately two million antibiotic-resistant infections and 23,000 deaths occur each year in the United States as a result of inappropriate antibiotic use. Among the accomplishments recognized by HANYS was the scalability and potential for replication of Northwell-GoHealth's ASP.

The ASP relies upon the partnership of clinical leaders, who educate practitioners and patients to foster a culture of antibiotic awareness. GoHealth Urgent Care's regional markets across the country have begun to adopt Northwell-GoHealth's ASP. The organization hopes to see other urgent care centers develop programs of their own.

"Antimicrobial resistance is a tremendous threat," said Bea Grause, RN, JD, president, Healthcare Association of New York State. "We are honored to celebrate Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care's terrific antibiotic stewardship work. They are truly deserving of a Pinnacle Award and are a model for other providers striving to achieve similar success."

HANYS' Pinnacle Award for Quality and Patient Safety recognizes successful quality improvement and innovative patient safety initiatives in four categories based on organization size and type each year. Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care is the first of four 2021 winners to be announced.

Watch Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care's Pinnacle Award video profile to learn more about the organization's Antibiotic Stewardship Program.

Northwell Health is New York State's largest health care provider and private employer, with 22 hospitals, 830 outpatient facilities and more than 16,600 affiliated physicians. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 77,000 employees – 18,900 nurses and 4,900 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We're making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow us @NorthwellHealth on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

GoHealth is an on-demand consumer-centric care platform that serves as the digital and physical front door to the healthcare ecosystem. At GoHealth, we aim to provide timely, accessible and high-quality on-demand care to patients, both virtually and in person, through both our technology-enabled and data-driven approach to care and partnerships with market-leading health systems. GoHealth operates over 167 on-demand care centers in the greater New York metropolitan area; the Portland, Oregon-Vancouver, Washington, metropolitan area; the San Francisco Bay Area; Hartford and Southeastern Connecticut; Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina; St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Northwest Arkansas; Delaware and Maryland.

GoHealth Urgent Care is a portfolio company of TPG Growth, the middle market and growth equity investment platform of TPG, which has more than $103 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.gohealthuc.com.

The Healthcare Association of New York State is New York's statewide hospital and continuing care association, representing nonprofit and public hospitals, nursing homes, home care agencies and other healthcare organizations. HANYS is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance the health of individuals and communities by providing leadership, representation and service to healthcare providers and systems across the entire continuum of care.

Contact:
Andrea Mineo
516-243-6863 
amineo@northwell.edu

Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care earns HANYS 2021 Pinnacle Award for Antibiotic Stewardship Program

Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care is pleased to announce Lead Advanced Practitioner Jackie McDevitt, PA-C, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Urgent Care Association (UCA).

As a Director, Ms. McDevitt will help govern UCA, an organization of leaders, providers and suppliers in the field of on-demand, consumer-focused healthcare.

In her role at Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care, Ms. McDevitt helps oversee the network’s urgent care centers and its virtual platform in New York.

An industry leader, Ms. McDevitt has been instrumental to Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care’s Covid-19 strategic planning. She has been a driving force in the center’s antibiotic stewardship initiatives and in triage-process streamlining, team-member training, workflow efficiencies and tele-health launch and oversight. She has also implemented skills workshops, staffing model modifications and student-rotation coordination.

“Jackie McDevitt is one of the best examples of servant leadership that I have ever encountered in my career. She inspires others to improve themselves at every opportunity. John Quincy Adams once said ‘If your actions inspire people to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.’ That is Jackie in a nutshell” said Dr. Neal Shipley, Medical Director - Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care.

“I am honored to serve on the Board of Directors of Urgent Care Association. As the scope of urgent-care medicine rapidly evolves, I am proud to help ensure that practitioners provide the very best care for our communities,” Ms. McDevitt said.

Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care Leader Elected to Urgent Care Association Board of Directors

BELLA VISTA, Ark. (Oct. 26, 2021) – Mercy-GoHealth Urgent Care opened a new location in Bella Vista, Arkansas, increasing the total number of centers serving the state to five, adding to its existing Bentonville, Fayetteville and Springdale locations.

As a leading provider of urgent care services in Northwest Arkansas, Mercy-GoHealth Urgent Care supports Mercy's reputation of high-quality, compassionate care that helps patients be well in mind, body and spirit with industry-leading NPS patient satisfaction ratings, customer-focused technology and Innovating Commerce Serving Communities (ICSC) award-winning urgent care center design.

"On-demand access to high-quality care is one of the most important ways in which we can support and develop healthier communities," said Todd Latz, chief executive officer of GoHealth. "We are excited about the continued expansion of our Mercy-GoHealth Urgent Care platform and look forward to caring for the Bella Vista community to continue improving the health of the region."

"We know our patients want convenience when it comes to health care, often wanting an appointment at a moment's notice," said Dr. Stephen Goss, president of Mercy Clinic Northwest Arkansas. "Adding another Mercy-GoHealth Urgent Care will give that easy access to our Bella Vista and north Bentonville community, giving them the peace of mind of quality care close to home."

Mercy-GoHealth Urgent Care – Bella Vista and all Mercy-GoHealth centers provide care for non-life-threatening illnesses or injuries, on-site X-ray services and COVID-19 evaluation and testing. Patients have access to quality care quickly and effortlessly with the options to walk in any center, check wait times or save a spot online and pre-register. Patients may also connect with a local urgent care provider remotely in a virtual visit, which can be done at the patient's convenience via a mobile device, computer or tablet.

For a full list of Mercy-GoHealth Urgent Care locations in Arkansas, visit https://www.gohealthuc.com/mercy-arkansas.

GoHealth is an on-demand consumer-centric care platform that serves as the digital and physical front door to the healthcare ecosystem. At GoHealth, we aim to provide timely, accessible and high-quality on-demand care to patients, both virtually and in person, through both our technology-enabled and data-driven approach to care and partnerships with market-leading health systems. GoHealth operates over 165 on-demand care centers in the greater New York metropolitan area; the Portland, Oregon-Vancouver, Washington, metropolitan area; the San Francisco Bay Area; Hartford and Southeastern Connecticut; Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina; St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Northwest Arkansas; Delaware and Maryland.

Mercy, named one of the top five large U.S. health systems for four consecutive years by IBM Watson Health, serves millions annually. Mercy is one of the nation's most highly integrated, multi-state health care systems, including more than 40 acute care, managed and specialty (heart, children's, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, convenient and urgent care locations, imaging centers and pharmacies. Mercy has 900 physician practices and outpatient facilities, more than 4,000 Mercy Clinic physicians and advanced practitioners and 40,000-plus co-workers serving patients and families across Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

New conveniently located urgent care in Bella Vista expands access to high-quality, on-demand health care for local communities

Mercy-GoHealth Urgent Care Opens New Center in Northwest Arkansas

DETROIT (October 26, 2021) – Henry Ford Health System, one of the nation's leading health care providers, and GoHealth Urgent Care, an on-demand consumer-centric care company, today announced a new partnership to operate urgent care centers across southeastern Michigan. Three existing Henry Ford Macomb Urgent Care centers in Fraser, Chesterfield and Bruce Township will transition to the new joint venture in late 2021, and multiple new sites are expected to open in 2022 across southeast Michigan. 

"As part of our mission to improve people's lives, we know we must continue to grow and expand our programs and services to meet the diverse and changing needs of the communities we serve," said Wright Lassiter, III, President and CEO, Henry Ford Health System. "That involves a commitment to partnering with our patients and members to provide more choices and increased access – the care they need and the convenience they want." 

Henry Ford-GoHealth Urgent Care will provide southeastern Michigan communities with accessible and high-quality urgent care. Customers will be able to walk in or go online to check wait times, save their spot online and pre-register, ensuring they can see a high-quality clinical provider quickly and effortlessly, virtually or in person. 

"The past 18 months have clearly demonstrated the critical importance of convenient access to high-quality, on-demand care," said Todd Latz, Chief Executive Officer of GoHealth. "We are very proud to partner with Henry Ford Health System, a national leader in clinical and value based care, to help ensure that people and families across southeastern Michigan can seamlessly access care and live healthier lives. 

" Henry Ford-GoHealth Urgent Care centers will treat patients ages six months and older, providing comprehensive urgent care for non-life-threatening illnesses or injuries, on-site X-ray services and COVID-19 evaluation and testing. Clinical care across all centers will continue to be led and provided by Henry Ford providers and combined with the proprietary customer access   tools and proven workflows and operations that have enabled GoHealth to deliver unparalleled experiences to patients across the country. 

Founded in 1915 by Henry Ford himself, Henry Ford Health System is a nonprofit, academic and integrated health system comprising five acute-care hospitals, destination facilities for cancer and orthopedics and sports medicine, three behavioral health facilities, a health plan and more than 250 care sites, including medical centers, walk-in and urgent care clinics, pharmacies, eye care facilities and other health care services. The health system has more than 33,000 employees and is home to the 1,900-member Henry Ford Medical Group, one of the nation's most recognized physician groups. More than 2,500 physicians are also affiliated with the health system through the Henry Ford Physician Network and Jackson Health Network. Henry Ford Health System is also one of the nation's major academic medical centers, receiving nearly $100 million in annual research funding, among Michigan's largest NIH-funded institutions. Also, an active participant in medical education and training, the health system has trained nearly 40% of physicians currently practicing in Michigan and provides education and training for other health professionals including nurses, pharmacists, radiology and respiratory technicians. 

GoHealth is an on-demand consumer-centric care platform that serves as the digital and physical front door to the healthcare ecosystem. At GoHealth, we aim to provide timely, accessible and high-quality on-demand care to patients, both virtually and in person, through both our technology-enabled and data-driven approach to care and partnerships with market-leading health systems. GoHealth operates over 165 on-demand care centers in the greater New York metropolitan area; the Portland, Oregon-Vancouver, Washington metropolitan area; the San Francisco Bay Area; Hartford and Southeastern Connecticut; Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina; St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Northwest Arkansas; Delaware and Maryland. GoHealth Urgent Care is a portfolio company of TPG Growth, the middle market and growth equity investment platform of TPG, which has more than $103 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.gohealthuc.com.

Joint venture aims to better serve communities through greater convenience and consumer focused care 

Henry Ford Health System and GoHealth Urgent Care Announce Partnership to Expand Southeast Michigan's Access to On-Demand Care 

Hartford, Conn., October 25, 2021 – Hartford HealthCare-GoHealth Urgent Care, the state's largest integrated on-demand care network, will open a new urgent care center in Berlin, Connecticut, on Thursday, October 21, 2021. The opening of Hartford HealthCare-GoHealth Urgent Care – Berlin increases its total number of conveniently located centers serving Connecticut to 19.

"On-demand access to high-quality care is one of the most important ways in which we can support and develop healthier communities," said Todd Latz, Chief Executive Officer of GoHealth. "We are excited about the continued expansion of our Hartford HealthCare-GoHealth Urgent Care platform and look forward to caring for the Berlin community and supporting its local organizations to continue improving the health of the region."

Hartford HealthCare-GoHealth Urgent Care – Berlin, located in the Webster Square Shopping Center at 175 Webster Square, will treat non-life-threatening illnesses and injuries, provide on-site X-ray services and offer rapid COVID-19 evaluation and testing.

"Through our partnership with GoHealth Urgent Care, Hartford HealthCare is proud to provide enhanced access, more convenience and quality healthcare experiences closer to where residents live and work," said David Whitehead, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer for Hartford HealthCare.

As a leading provider of urgent care services in Connecticut, Hartford HealthCare-GoHealth Urgent Care continues Hartford HealthCare's long-standing reputation for coordinated, research-backed, high-quality care with industry-leading patient satisfaction ratings, consumer-focused technology and award-winning center design.

Those seeking care in the Berlin community or any of Hartford HealthCare-GoHealth Urgent Care's other 18 locations can walk in or go online to check times, save their spot online and pre-register, ensuring they can see a high-quality clinical provider quickly and effortlessly.

With 33,000 colleagues and total operating revenue of $4.9 billion, Hartford HealthCare has cultivated a strong, unified culture of accountability and innovation. Its care-delivery system, with more than 400 locations serving 185 towns and cities, includes two tertiary-level teaching hospitals, an acute-care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and trauma center, three community hospitals, the state's most extensive behavioral health network, a large multispecialty physician group, a clinical care organization, a regional home care system, an array of senior care services, and a large physical therapy and rehabilitation network. Hartford HealthCare's unique, system-wide Institute Model offers a single, high standard of care in crucial specialties at hospital and ambulatory sites across Connecticut. The institutes include: Cancer, Heart and Vascular, Ayer Neuroscience, Orthopedics and Tallwood Urology. Visit Hartford HealthCare at www.hartfordhealthcare.org

New center increases Central Connecticut's access to high-quality, personal and connected care

Hartford HealthCare-GoHealth Urgent Care expands care between Meriden, Newington and Southington with the opening of new center in Berlin

New York, N.Y., October 20, 2021 –New York's largest healthcare provider, Northwell Health, and GoHealth Urgent Care, a leading on-demand consumer-centric care platform, today announced that they will expand service in Manhattan with the opening of two new urgent care centers on the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side. Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care's two new Manhattan locations, which opened today, October 20, 2021, increase its total number of centers serving the greater New York region to 54.

"Ensuring healthy communities starts with seamless access to high-quality care where and when people need it most," said Todd Latz, Chief Executive Officer of GoHealth Urgent Care. "We are proud to care for New Yorkers through 54 conveniently located centers across the region. We look forward to further expanding our personalized, on-demand care platform in Manhattan with the opening of our new Upper East Side and Upper West Side centers, serving as these two vibrant communities' connection to the clinical excellence of Northwell Health."

Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care – E 96th, located at 175 East 96th St., and Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care – W 103rd, located at 2689 Broadway, treat non-life-threatening illnesses and injuries, provide on-site X-ray services and offer COVID-19 evaluation and rapid testing. The two centers were formerly Cure Urgent Care centers and will be updated to reflect Northwell Health-GoHealth's award-winning center design, digital customer access tools and other technology-driven care capabilities.

"Adding these two new Manhattan locations to Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care's already strong network further emphasizes our long-term commitment to provide convenient care to New Yorkers," said Adam Boll, Senior Vice President of Strategic Business Initiatives at Northwell Health. "Access to efficient and high-quality healthcare is why urgent care is a top priority wherever you live, and we are excited to bring care that is integrated with New York's largest health system to these neighborhoods."

As a leading provider of urgent care services in New York, Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care supports Northwell Health's reputation of defining tomorrow's health care through clinical care, community health, education, research and entrepreneurship with GoHealth Urgent Care's industry-leading patient satisfaction ratings and consumer-focused technology.

Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care patients can walk in or go online to check wait times, save their spot online and pre-register, ensuring they can see a high-quality clinical provider quickly and effortlessly.

GoHealth Urgent Care is an on-demand consumer-centric care platform that serves as the digital and physical front door to the healthcare ecosystem. At GoHealth, we aim to provide timely, accessible and high-quality on-demand care to patients, both virtually and in person, through both our technology-enabled and data-driven approach to care and partnerships with market-leading health systems. GoHealth operates over 165 on-demand care centers in the greater New York metropolitan area; the Portland, Oregon-Vancouver, Washington, metropolitan area; the San Francisco Bay Area; Hartford and

Southeastern Connecticut; Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina; St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Northwest Arkansas; Delaware and Maryland. GoHealth Urgent Care is a portfolio company of TPG Growth, the middle market and growth equity investment platform of TPG, which has more than $103 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.gohealthuc.com.

Northwell Health is New York State's largest health care provider and private employer, with 23 hospitals, nearly 800 outpatient facilities and more than 14,200 affiliated physicians. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 74,000 employees – 18,500 nurses and 4,500 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We're making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow us @NorthwellHealth on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Two new locations on Upper East Side and Upper West Side increase Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care's on-demand care footprint to six centers in Manhattan

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Wilmington, Del. – June 15, 2021 – ChristianaCare-GoHealth Urgent Care today announces the expansion of its footprint in Delaware and entry into Maryland with the opening of six new centers. The new centers are located in Bear, Dover, Middletown and Smyrna in Delaware and North East and Elkton in Maryland.

The current ChristianaCare-GoHealth Urgent Care centers in Smyrna and Middletown are being relocated to the new, larger facilities in those same communities, located at 300 Jimmy Drive in Smyrna and 749 Middletown Warrick Road in Middletown. In addition, two centers in Cecil County operated by ChristianaCare in Perryville and on the Union Hospital campus are in the process of being closed so that patients can be cared for at the new, more expansive Cecil County sites in Elkton, at 301 Pulaski Highway, and North East, at 101 NE Plaza.

The acquisition increases the total number of ChristianaCare-GoHealth Urgent Care centers serving our communities to 11, providing us with the enhanced ability to deliver on the brand promise of providing patients with ease of care, on their own terms, where they live, work and play. The integration of urgent, on-demand care with the expansive ChristianaCare network creates a market-leading level of convenient patient care.

If ChristianaCare-GoHealth Urgent Care patients require follow up or specialty care, our teams are able to quickly provide them with access to the broader ChristianaCare system. Electronic health records are shared across this entire innovative network so that at every touchpoint, patients have an even more connected and effortless experience.

“With this increased access to care, we are able to make a positive impact on the health of more people who count on ChristianaCare-GoHealth for high-quality, affordable urgent care services near where they live and work,” said Sharon Kurfuerst, Ed.D, OTR/L, FACHE, system chief operating officer at ChristianaCare and president of ChristianaCare, Union Hospital. “Our unique model of care, expertise and customer focus delivers greater convenience and enables us to provide the right care, at the right place and right time in the most cost-appropriate setting.”

The locations were acquired from ExpressCare and are being updated based on the award-winning center design and technology-driven care capabilities of the Christianacare-GoHealth Urgent Care model.

“All of our highly trained team members in these new urgent care centers are dedicated to providing their neighbors with high-quality, affordable urgent care services,” said Rob Malizia, M.D., medical director and head of operations for ChristianaCare-GoHealth Urgent Care.

Walk-ins are always welcome at all ChristianaCare-GoHealth centers, with the option to save a spot online, and Virtual Visits provide another convenient and easy way to access care. ChristianaCare-GoHealth Urgent Care providers treat everyday illnesses and non-life-threatening injuries such as colds, flu, fever, asthma, allergies, emphysema, minor skin lacerations, cuts, burns, urinary tract infections, fractures, sprains and strains. The centers also have on-site X-ray services and provide COVID-19 testing.

Most ChristianaCare-GoHealth Urgent Care centers are open every day 8 a.m.-8 p.m. For more information and to find nearby centers, visit www.gohealthuc.com/mid-atlantic.

About GoHealth
GoHealth Urgent Care is one of the country’s fastest-growing and most technology-forward on-demand care companies. At GoHealth, we provide unparalleled experiences that are effortless, personal and connected through partnerships with market-leading health systems and our communities as a whole. GoHealth operates approximately 160 on-demand care centers in the greater New York metropolitan area, the Portland, Oregon-Vancouver, Washington metropolitan area, the San Francisco Bay Area, Hartford and South Eastern Connecticut, Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina, St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Northwest Arkansas and Delaware. GoHealth Urgent Care is a TPG Growth portfolio company, the middle market and growth equity investment platform of TPG, which has more than $103 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.gohealthuc.com.

About ChristianaCare
Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, ChristianaCare is one of the country’s most dynamic health care organizations, centered on improving health outcomes, making high-quality care more accessible and lowering health care costs. ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of primary care and outpatient services, home health care, urgent care centers, three hospitals (1,299 beds), a freestanding emergency department, a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health. It also includes the pioneering Gene Editing Institute.

ChristianaCare is nationally recognized as a great place to work, rated by Forbes as the 5th best health system to work for in the United States and by IDG Computerworld as one of the nation’s Best Places to Work in IT. ChristianaCare is rated by HealthGrades as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals and continually ranked among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek and other national quality ratings. ChristianaCare is a nonprofit teaching health system with more than 260 residents and fellows. With the unique CareVio™ data-powered care coordination service and a focus on population health and value-based care, ChristianaCare is shaping the future of health care.

Media Contact
GoHealth Urgent Care contact:
Edward Lin
lin@merrittgrp.com
240-994-3027

ChristianaCare contact:
Bill Schmitt
wschmitt@christianacare.org
302-327-3318

The six new centers provide communities with convenient and seamlessly connected care through in-person centers, virtual visits, and specialty services across the ChristianaCare’s comprehensive network

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Author: Cat Goodyear, PA-C, Novant Health-GoHealth Urgent Care

Are you tired of looking at the same four walls? Is the dog park the most exciting place you’ve visited recently? Do you even remember where your passport is? If any of these questions feel too real, then you are like most of the world right about now. Last August, after only a few months of the pandemic, a survey conducted by American Express found that 48% of Americans reported feeling “anxious and stressed” because they could not travel. It’s easy to imagine how much worse we’re feeling now, as we head into a second summer of COVID-19 restrictions and travel concerns. For many Americans though, the itch to get-up-and-go mixed with the comfort of being vaccinated and declining rates of infection means: It’s go-time!

After more than a year of feeling stuck at home, it looks like the travel industry is in for a robust summer season. In March of this year, the American Automobile Association (“AAA”) reported that 84% of American travelers have plans to travel in the next six months. (This figure came from the most recent Longwoods International study which tracks American travel trends globally.) For folks who are contemplating or already booking travel, there are a few new terms to add to our travel lexicon:

“Vaxications” are celebratory trips for those who are, or plan to be, vaccinated, and these happy getaways are booming! According to Trafalgar Tours USA, a U.S. travel agency, 64% of all international travel is booked for this summer, with the UK, Ireland, and Italy being the top three destinations.

“Revenge Travel” refers to travel enthusiasts who are booking “Bucket List” trips after more than a year of confinement. These big-spenders are going all out on vacations-of-a-lifetime and leaving no regrets as they jet, sail, and set off around the world.

“Many Americans and those around the world had their vacations altered or outright canceled last year, so they are all looking to satisfy their travel itch at the same time,” said Eric Jones, co-founder of The Vacationer travel journal and planning guide.

Now that you’re well-versed, passport in hand, and ready to roll out the door, let’s talk about health and safety while traveling. The single most important and most protective thing you can do is get vaccinated. In April, the CDC gave the green light to vaccinated individuals to travel and wander safely, which is a pretty amazing “Hall Pass,” if you ask me.

Whether you journey near, far, or not-just-yet, remember the basics: “(your hands often),(six feet apart), (your mask).” and also consider these simple, straight-forward, best practices for safe travel this summer:

The risk of contracting or spreading COVID-19 outside is very low. So, when in Rome, spend more time at the Roman Forum than in the Sistine Chapel (although both are breathtaking).

Travel with Your “Bubble.” These are close family and friends with whom you have spent the last year holed up inside the family room playing Monopoly™. I know you’re sick of them. I, too, am weary of my people. But with a change of venue, your parents, children, cousin Moe, and Grandpa Joe will shed their “Pandemic Personas” as “property tycoons” and “railroad barons,” revealing the loving, kind, interesting, and downright funny people you once loved.

Yes, I said it. Because it matters. What’s a “Bubble” you ask? Re-read number four…

Finally, before you head off, remember to plan ahead and confirm COVID-19 testing requirements for your destination location, airline, or other mode of travel. All Novant Health-GoHealth Urgent Care centers offer rapid (approximately 15 minute) NAAT COVID-19 tests and send-out PCR tests on site (approximately 24-48 hour turnaround time). Additionally, our centers are Certified Hawaii Safe Travel Testing Sites! Learn more at GoHealthUC.com/north-carolina/travel-testing.

“Welcome!” is a warm and wonderful word in any language. Bienvenidos! Willkommen! Bienvenue! Tervetuloa! Vitejte! Mahalo!

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