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RT @KHNews: Retail Health Clinics Boom, But Still Small Part Of Overall Market, @marissaaevans reports: http://t.co/xzepADFVPj 
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As Obamacare Rolls Out, Retail Clinics Are Booming Again Forbes Retail health clinics, which are generally staffed by advanced degreed nurses known as nurse practitioners, treat routine maladies like strep throat or pink eye, are expected to be a...
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Retail clinics are booming again with the Affordable Care Act slated to offer coverage for uninsured individuals on exchanges this fall
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Survey explores NP job satisfaction in retail clinics Clinical Advisor Las Vegas – Retail health clinics are emerging as a cost-effective solution to address primary care and urgent care needs as many parts of the United States experience a...
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Results of survey
"On average participants were women (97%) aged 46 to 50 years. The majority of respondents were white (84.8%), followed by blacks (9.1%) and Hispanics (6.1%).
The top areas of job satisfaction among NPs working in retail clinics were the challenge and autonomy of treating patients (93.9%), benefits (93%), and time for professional, social and community interaction (90%), respondents indicated."
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The study called the U.S. rate of primary care doctor production "abysmal." Many health centers in South L.A. can't afford a doctor, which is one reason why so much care falls to nurses and physician assistants.
eMedToday's insight:
The shortage of primary care doctors drive the market for retail health clinics.
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MedPage Today ObamaCare to double retail health clinics, analysis predicts The Hill (blog) "Although primary care physicians and hospitals once regarded retail clinics as a business threat, in a post-reform landscape, they are viewed as critical to...
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2 facts:
1. Global consulting firm Accenture predicted that the number of walk-in medical facilities located in retail stores will rise to nearly 3,000 by 2015. The clinics are expected to account for 10 percent of non-primary care outpatient visits within three years.
2. According to the report, new retail-based clinics will add capacity for 10.8 million patient visits per year by 2015. The trend is expected to drive about $800 million in savings, since clinics cost less than other medical venues.
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The world's largest retailer's plans for thousands of in-store health clinics haven't materialized
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All the big boys are jumping on the band wagon for retail health clinics. Really a significant trend in health care. Who want to pay and wait at a hospital when you can get service quickly at your local corner store
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Walgreens embarked on a new, comprehensive store rebranding initiative in the end of 2011. At that time, the health & beauty retailer operated a little more than 350 retail clinics in its stores, with the goal of being able to provide lower-cost medical care and treatment to its customers than is available through primary care physicians. Via RetailNet Group , Audrey Seiter
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The Strategy
"Walgreens store re-branding initiative is centered on the fulfillment of two goals: (1) owning the relationship on health & wellness as more and more retailers (for example: Whole Foods, Walmart, and Kroger) roll out strategies to meet the growing demand for these services; and (2) bringing theconvenience of a one-stop-shop to its customers in the form of quality health care, access to prescription drugs, OTC pharmaceuticals, beauty products, and even ready-to-eat food and fresh produce! Parents of more than 2-3 children will find that the convenience of having this quality health care available at their local store trumps the alternative of visiting a primary care physician’s office when a child is sick. (See Walgreens’ Marketing Video Below)"
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#Retail-based #health #clinics continue to move beyond acute care http://t.co/kniKgD6nXy #pharmacy #healthcare #WeightLoss #Fitness
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The move is important as it further illustrates the increased focus among retail-based health clinics to move beyond acute care. Many retail clinic operators already have started migrating toward expanded services, including weight-loss, smoking-cessation and fitness programs. For example, RediClinic has its Weigh Forward weight-management program, and Lindora, which operates a handful of clinics within select Rite Aid stores, began as a weight-loss clinic first and evolved into acute care later.
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Johns Hopkins Medicine and Walgreens Expand Collaboration to Bring First-of-its-Kind Walgreens to Johns Hopkins Medical Campus
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the key is linking a medical name to retail health
"This is a significant next step in our relationship, leveraging the clinical expertise of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Walgreens expansive health care resources to create a retail hub for community-based care"
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A shortfall of primary care doctors can mean more difficulty scheduling appointments and longer waits while reduced preventive care can push patients' health problems into chronic conditions. Clinics more frequently are ...
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Shortage of doctors is one of the key driving trends to retail health Clinics in the US.
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As wait times to see a doctor for simple problems like sinusitis and urinary tract infection lengthen, more and more Americans are turning to retail health clinics—walk-in medical facilities located in pharmacies, grocery stores, ...
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The numbers are impressive
" The number of visits to such clinics quadrupled from 1.48 million in 2007 to 5.97 million in 2009, according to a study published in the journal Health Affairs, and topped 10 million last year. Convenience is driving this migration to retail health clinics,"
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CVS Caremark, the U.S.'s second-largest drug retailer, has expanded its retail health-care clinic footprint to 650 in the last five years and plans to add another 350 by 2016. Through MinuteClinics...
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Retail clinics should explode because of new changes in health laws
This helps increase accessibility to primary health care at lower cost. Demand for primary health care is expected to sharply increase when 32 million more Americans will obtain health insurance from 2014 through health-care reforms.
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Summary:
"Another massive trend is providing healthcare outside the traditional hospital environment into home, retail and other healthcare service developments such as health kiosks and cubicle care centers inside pharmacies, shopping centers and other areas of large population traffic. This trend is already occurring in the USA with Wal-mart and Walgreens introducing primary care facilities in their locations".
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“It's really up to the patient to make sure that the excellent records these retail medical clinics keep is embedded in their personal health record with their primary health care provider,” Professor Herzlinger says. Via Jo Ann Loomis
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Covenience and Price drive retail clinics push.
What is driving this migration to retail health clinics? “For the majority of patients it is convenience,” says lead study author, Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and health policy researcher at the nonprofit RAND Corporation (he’ll be joining Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy in June). You can walk into a retail health clinic without an appointment, and many clinics are open nights and weekends. In fact, nearly half of the visits in the study were on the weekends or other off-hours when doctors’ offices are typically closed.
The other attraction of retail health clinics is price, Dr. Mehrotra and his colleagues found. “Not the actual price, but the transparency of the cost,” he says. Clinics offer a menu of prices and services, which means there are fewer surprises when the bill arrives. And health insurance covers all—or a percentage of—the costs of services provided at these clinics, just as it does for care delivered at a doctor’s office.
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The study found that the main reasons patients chose to use retail health clinics included the convenience of evening and weekend hours walk-in appointments and nearby locations