Ambulatory care settings

Ambulatory care settings provide healthcare on an outpatient basis. That is, patients do not stay overnight in the facility. The term "ambulatory care" encompasses a large variety of healthcare settings that include but are not limited to physician offices, urgent care centers, dialysis facilities, ambulatory surgical centers, cancer clinics, imaging centers, endoscopy clinics, public health clinics, and other types of outpatient clinics.


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