Baylor Scott & White Health is adding 41 urgent care sites to its network in Texas through a partnership with NextCare Urgent Care.
Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White, which serves 3 million Texans as the state’s largest nonprofit health system, said Thursday it will jointly own urgent care facilities. and expanded to Houston and San Antonio. Other NextCare locations are spread throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin metropolitan areas, where Baylor Scott & White already has a physical presence.
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The system operates 51 hospitals and more than 1,200 care sites, including five urgent care centers.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
Organizations will work on branding and digital integration in the coming months, according to a news release on Thursday.
Baylor Scott & White reported $1.05 billion in net income for the first nine months of fiscal 2023, compared with $680 million in the same period a year earlier.
Urgent care is becoming an increasingly competitive market in Texas. The NextCare deal follows an announcement from Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare in May outlining plans to buy 19 FastMed urgent care sites and 22 MedPost centers this summer across multiple Texas markets, including including Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Houston and San Antonio.
