The Role of Retail Clinics
November 28, 2017 | Terry Sharrer
Retail clinics represent a kind of medical populism challenging the healthcare establishment. Typically retail clinics, located in grocery stores, pharmacies, or membership warehouses, have nurse practitioners and physician assistants on duty to treat minor health issues. They are neither urgent care nor wellness practices, and usually don’t have connections to primary care physicians or diagnostic laboratories. They have many critics, but their convenience and low cost has driven a 20.3% growth in sales annually over the past six years, with no sign of slowing. This ought to tell hospitals and physicians that the day of distributed healthcare has arrived. MORE
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