CHICAGO — Civis Analytics, a data science firm that empowers organizations to make smarter, faster decisions grounded in statistical facts, released new research that explores demographics and motivations of retail clinic patients, and how these visits impact spending behavior in the retail portion of the stores. The study found that retail clinic users tend to be patients
CINCINNATI — The Little Clinic, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Kroger Co. and a key cornerstone of Kroger Health’s nationwide health care assets, announced it has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Retail Health Care. Having demonstrated continuous compliance with the Commission’s nationally recognized standards, The Little Clinic has now been awarded this accreditation
PHOENIX — Web Golinkin, chief executive officer of Rite Aid Corp. subsidiaries RediClinic and Health Dialog, has left the companies to become CEO of FastMed Urgent Care. FastMed said Golinkin will oversee its more than 100 walk-in urgent care clinics in Arizona, Texas and North Carolina. FastMed clinics provide a range of acute/episodic and preventive
Retail competition continues to be fierce. According to Nielsen’s forecast, dollar sales are projected to grow only 0.9% in 2017, meaning that retailers will continue to fight each other over a pie that isn’t growing as much as they’d like. Therefore, they need to differentiate themselves from their competitors and gain more loyalty from their
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens and the University of Miami Health System have announced a collaboration focused on delivering coordinated clinical care and pharmacy excellence to patients across South Florida. As part of the agreement, UHealth — the University of Miami Health System, will manage and provide all clinical services at 17 Walgreens Healthcare Clinics insides
Retailers focusing on health and wellness might want to take a closer look at retail clinic patients, according to a recent retail health care services study by Nielsen. Of more than 2,200 U.S. adults surveyed by Harris Poll for Nielsen, almost 20% said they’ve visited a retail health clinic in the last 12 months. Yet
CAMP HILL, Pa. — Rite Aid Corp.’s RediClinic has formed a joint venture with New Jersey health system Hackensack Meridian Health to open co-branded retail clinics. Plans call for the first of 10 clinics to start opening later this year, RediClinic said Tuesday. The walk-in clinics will be called Hackensack Meridian Health RediClinics and be
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens plans to add up to 25 in-store clinics in Oregon and Washington under a clinical collaboration with regional health system Providence Health & Services, which will own and operate the clinics. The drug chain said Thursday that the new retail clinics will be bannered Providence Express Care at Walgreens and, in
Retail health clinics have much to offer the U.S. health care system in terms of providing ready access to affordable, primary care services, according to a new study by Manatt Health on behalf of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Titled “The Value Proposition of Retail Clinics”, the report — cited on the National Association of
Half of visitors to retail clinics go there because of a cold or flu, according to health care market researcher Kalorama Information. In survey of 2,000 U.S. adults, Kalorama found that about 700 have visited a retail health clinic. The reasons they cited for going to a clinic included vaccination (named by 74%), cold/flu (55%),
