Here are five key notes:
1. Xpress OrthoCare is an orthopedic urgent care center designed to treat sports injuries, pediatric injuries, fractures and other bone conditions.
2. The specialists care for patients with extremities injuries, knee and hip issues, spinal conditions, orthopedic trauma and workplace injuries.
3. Xpress OrthoCare is a SurgCenter Development division and Indiana Xpress Ortho Care is the first physician-owned and operated orthopedic urgent care clinic it opened; others are planned across the country.
4. The urgent care clinic is the first in Indiana focused exclusively on orthopedics and was opened as an alternative to the emergency room setting.
5. The urgent care clinic requires lower copay than emergency rooms and includes expertise that isn’t available in general walk-in clinics.
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