February 11, 2025- As MedExpress Urgent Care locations faced closure in 2024, health systems across the landscape began to scoop them up. The Morgantown, W.Va.-based clinics have been part of UnitedHealth Group’s Optum since 2015 when they were purchased for $1.5 billion. But nurses were laid off at nearly 150 locations this past August as part of larger layoffs at Optum and health systems like Pittsburgh-based UPMC jumped at the opportunity to take over some MedExpress Urgent Care centers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia beginning this spring.
UPMC formed a joint venture with GoHealth Urgent Care to become UPMC-GoHealth Urgent Care to run the centers. During the transition, MedExpress, UPMC Urgent Care and UPMC Express Care will operate under their current names.
The urgent care provider and operator GoHealth has partnerships with 11 health systems and manages over 250 urgent care centers in 14 states, including one with ChristianaCare to operate five new urgent care clinics in Delaware previously managed by MedExpress.
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