Retail Clinics news and information

WellStar Health System's urgent-care centers and physicians will work with retail clinics in eight Walgreen Co. stores to expand the scope of services available and help manage the treatment of chronic diseases.
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Retail clinics and urgent-care centers offer patients flexible hours and convenience, but telehealth may be poised to take over as the easiest way for patients to get answers, advice and prescriptions for their routine ailments.
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Walgreen Co. continued its push into healthcare delivery with clinical collaboration agreements to offer and coordinate acute, chronic and preventive-care services for health systems in Orlando, Fla., and Indianapolis.
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Simply extending office hours may not be enough for pediatricians to persuade patients to come to them rather than to retail clinics, according to a new study posted on the JAMA Pediatrics website. It found that almost half of children's visits to in-store healthcare facilities occur when pediatric...
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Rival drugstore chains continued this week to expand their footprints in retail health with retail clinics. Walgreen Co. announced a new clinic adjacent to Johns Hopkins East Baltimore medical campus, while CVS Caremark Corp. announced a partnership with Parkridge Health System to run seven...
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The number of retail health clinics that have been popping up in places like drugstores for years is expected to double by the end of 2015, according to the consulting firm Accenture.
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In the past decade, millions of Americans each year have skipped the doctor's office or emergency room and headed to a pharmacy for everything from a flu shot to treatment for strep throat. Some physicians fear this expansion could poses a health threat to the people treated.
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In terms of revenue and public health needs, annual youth physicals required for sports participation or summer camp attendance may not appear large on the healthcare system's big-picture radar, but they appear to be a growing sore point between primary-care physicians and retailers operating nurse...
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Modern Healthcare reporter Andis Robeznieks talks with Dr. Kevin Ronneberg, associate medical director of Target Corp., about the company's in-store clinics.
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Before the H1N1 pandemic of 2009, almost no pharmacists administered flu vaccines. But last year, pharmacists working for Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreen Co. administered 5.5 million flu shots among the 9 million vaccines they delivered.
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