excerpt from HealthLeaders Media, April 16, 2010:
Some hospitals and most physician offices are worried about the proliferation of in-store clinics, and have been for some time now. But despite the fact that they don’t make money for many of the grocery and drug stores that offer them, they’re not going away.
On the contrary, they’re growing by leaps and bounds, and Tuesday’s story about plans by CVS Caremark Corp. to double the number of in-store medical clinics it operates within the next five years only reinforces that view.
As a group, hospital leaders aren’t worried they will lose a lot of business to such clinics – they offer vastly different services, after all – but they know the clinics have the potential to hurt their branding strategy, especially health systems that have a variety of outpatient offerings….” Read on
