If you’d love to become part of the urgent care industry and are wondering about how to open an urgent care clinic with American Family Care (AFC), you’ll be happy to know ours is a straightforward process that makes it easy for just about anyone to join the AFC family. Best of all, thanks to our training and support, you don’t need prior experience in a healthcare field to leverage our time-tested business model; it takes a lot of the guesswork out of running your clinic and keeps you focused on growth.
Read on to find out more about some of the steps you’ll take to become an AFC franchisee and start providing your community with our valuable suite of services.
Begin on Our Website
Our website is where most of our clinic owners began the process of opening their urgent care clinic franchise — and it’s where you can find a lot of information about our history, our investment, and our training and support. Here is where you can reach out to us through our contact form, to let us know you’re interested in finding out more about an AFC franchise opportunity. You’ll provide us with a bit of preliminary information, and once we receive it, we’ll reach out to you for a short one-on-one that’ll allow us to get to know each other a bit better. We’ll make sure our goals and values mutually align and do our due diligence to ensure you’re financially qualified to take advantage of our opportunity.
Spend Some Time with Our FDD
While we’re making sure you’re financially qualified, you’ll spend time with our Franchise Disclosure Document, or FDD. An FDD is a very important document that all franchisors are required to have and share with our potential franchise partners who are serious about an AFC investment. Our FDD goes over nearly everything you need to know about us, including who our founders are, our history, what’s expected of you as a franchisee, and what you can expect from us as a franchisor. Because there’s a great deal of information contained in an FDD, you’ll have at least two weeks to go over it. Of course, we’re also available to answer any questions you might have because we want to ensure you’re as educated as possible about our offering before you make any decisions.
Enjoy a Virtual Discovery Day
Traditionally, one of the last and most important steps toward opening an AFC urgent care clinic franchise is taking part in a Discovery Day — it’s a designated day for potential franchisees to spend at our corporate headquarters to meet key players and get a real feel for our brand. Discovery Days are still a critical part of our process, but because of COVID-19, we’re now conducting them virtually for a safe but no less enjoyable and informative experience.
Prospective franchisees first receive a series of webinars that include an introduction to the company, an outline of the operations, and an overview of construction. After that, participants are invited to join a Zoom call where members of the AFC team, including the C-suite and Bruce Irwin, MD, Founder and CEO of American Family Care, are in attendance to talk about the opportunity, interact with prospective franchisees, and answer any questions they may have.
Throughout our process, we make it our goal to be available and ready to share everything about an AFC opportunity that makes it great. With over 225+ locations nationwide, we’re excited to keep growing! Are you ready to join us?
If you’d like to find out more about the steps to take toward opening an urgent care clinic with AFC, get in touch with us today!
