Pasadena Community Urgent Care Urges Employers and Local Residents to Consider Sensible Alternative to ER Visits

(PASADENA, Calif. – October 31, 2011) — As Pasadena Community Urgent Care  (PCUC) prepares to celebrate its first anniversary, a new national study reports that consumers and employers alike can save significant time and money by more properly using urgent care centers  instead of hospital-based emergency rooms for non-emergency care. Unnecessary use of ER facilities is rampant in theUnited States, resulting in increased medical costs, long wait times, and decreased availability of medical resources for patients