According to the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association Arizona averages just over 200 physicians per 100,000 residents. Many of these physicians work in strictly outpatient clinics, providing a wide variety of valuable medical services to Arizonans.

Urgent Care Centers
Urgent Care Centers have ushered in a new type of healthcare in Arizona: high quality, family practice style medical care without the need to schedule appointments days or even weeks in advance like traditional practices. Urgent Care centers throughout the valley like NovaCare, NextCare, Blue Cross Blue Shield Urgent Care and Cigna Urgent care provide a full array of non-emegency medical services on a first come, first serve basis.

Before urgent care the only option for immediate care was an emergency room visit, but urgent care offers Arizonans a high quality and much more econoical solution for on demand healthcare.

Family Practices
Some 5,200 primary care pysicians provide the most cost-effective medical care for Arizonans that require frequent medical intervention or management of long term medical issues. With a variety of general and family practices available throughout the valley and state there are practices near all parts of Arizona that focus on establishing long term medical relationships with patients, affording them consistent, informed medical care from physicians with intimate knowledge of their patients' medical histories.

These family and general care practices work in concert with Arizona's hospitals and specalist clinics to provide the high level of medical care Arizonans demand.
Specialty Clinics
If you're in need of specialty care, Arizona offers a broad and diverse market of medical specialists prepared to meet your individual healthcare needs. Apart from the wide availability of specialists at Arizonas many hospitals and medical centers, specialty clinics poulate the valley providing specailized care to Arizonans in a variety of fields. Due to the representation of all four major sports in Arizona, and the presence of the Arizona Fall league and Cactus League Preseason baseball Arizona features some of the best sports medicine specialists in the country.

This is as much a benefit for regular Arizonans as it is Arizona's athletes, as the facilities built and perfected to treat multi-million dollar athletes are available to all Arizonans. World class specialists in physical therapy, occular surgery, orthapedics, chiropractic medicine and other sports related diciplines are available throughout the state.