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Funyuns and flu shots? Gas station company ventures into urgent care

The urgent care industry's market size has doubled in the last decade.

Billy Rohling stands outside a MedWise Urgent Care clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he came with his partner, who was having breathing problems. “They aren’t busy at all,” he said. “It took 15 minutes to get an EKG.” MedWise was started in 2020 by QuikTrip, a Tulsa-based gas station and convenience store chain. (Bram Sable-Smith/KFF Health News/TNS)
Billy Rohling stands outside a MedWise Urgent Care clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he came with his partner, who was having breathing problems. “They aren’t busy at all,” he said. “It took 15 minutes to get an EKG.” MedWise was started in 2020 by QuikTrip, a Tulsa-based gas station and convenience store chain. (Bram Sable-Smith/KFF Health News/TNS)
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It's not the first company to see potential in the urgent care industry. Private equity firms have been investing in this consumer-friendly niche for over a decade.
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