Retail Clinics

  • MinuteClinic opens 5 new NYC locations

    WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health’s MinuteClinic has opened five new locations three of New York City’s five boroughs. Two of the new clinics are in Brooklyn, two are in Manhattan and one is located in Queens. All are located inside of CVS Pharmacy locations.

  • Survey: Most nurse practitioners help decode medical info for their patients

    KENILWORTH, N.J. — Nurse practitioners play a crucial role in helping patients decode medical information, according to the findings of a recent Merck Manuals survey. The survey of 210 NPs, conducted at a recent medical conference, revealed that most (88%) believe they spend at least half of appointment times educating patients on diagnoses, treatments and prescriptions.

  • Walgreens Boots Alliance partners with KKR on PharMerica acquisition, settles with Theranos

    DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens Boots Alliance has had a busy week.

    As a minority investor, the company on Wednesday announced that it had formed a new company with KKR, through which the two acquired institutional pharmacy company PharMerica. The all-cash transaction is valued at roughly $1.4 billion and will make PharMerica a private company.

  • Bartell Drugs opens 14th CareClinic amid flurry of store openings

    SEATTLE — Bartell Drugs opened another CareClinic by Kaiser Permanente to its roster on Monday. The new clinic, located at the company’s newest store in Snoqualmie ridge, will be open seven days a week.

    “Patients come to our CareClinics for quality and convenient care,” Kaiser Permanente clinician and CareClinic chief Michael Erickson said. “We’ve proven that CareClinics live up to the promise of quickly diagnosing and treating common ailments. We get you in, taken care of and on your way for an affordable price.”

  • CVS Health expands Cleveland Clinic partnership

    WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health and Cleveland Clinic on Tuesday announced the expansion of their eight-year clinical affiliation in Northeast Ohio and Florida. The expanded partnership will include various efforts to better coordinate patient care and provide services to support healthy outcomes for Cleveland Clinic patients in these regions.

  • Report: Economic firm finds nearby clinics reduce ER visits

  • CVS Health pledges $250K for opioid abuse treatment center near HQ

    WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health is teaming up with Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to help open an opioid Center of Excellence here, where the company has its headquarters, in an effort expand access to medication-assisted treatment. The company has committed $250,000 to the Community Care Alliance to open and operate the Woonsocket Center.

  • VUMC to operate 14 Tennessee retail clinics within Walgreens

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Walgreens and Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Wednesday announced that a subsidiary of VUMC will operate and provide all clinical services at 14 retail health clinics within Walgreens stores across middle Tennessee.

  • MinuteClinic offers workplace health services through new partnership

    WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health’s MinuteClinic on Tuesday announced that it had joined the Alere eScreen Occupational Health Network in a move that will allow employers to direct employees to MinuteClinic to complete occupational health screenings.

  • High deductible plans help fuel expansion

    The retail clinic space represents a fast-growing industry that hasn’t even scratched the surface in terms of its full potential given constant market pressures to make health care more affordable, more accessible and more efficient. In 2016, more than 2,200 locations in the United States generated sales of more than $1.4 billion, a 20.3% increase per year from $518 million in 2010, according to Kalorama Information’s “Retail Clinics 2017: The Game-Changer in Healthcare” report, published earlier this year.

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