Practice Management
RETAIL CLINIC ROOFTOPS BY HOST Between May 2023 and June 2026, the number of health clinics hosted in retail settings in the United States fell from 1,750 to 1,166. This represents a 33% overall decline from the 2023 peak. The decline also includes a recent 15% drop since our previous analysis, which found 1,370 sites in operation from May 2023 through December 2024.1 The contraction began when CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart announced closures and has …
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A new Cochrane Database review finds that while there’s a lot of chatter about the success of retail clinics, hard data on their effectiveness has yet to materialize. Chen et al, searched CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase, and six other databases, as well as two trial registers, and conducted reference checking and citations searching, looking for any trials and controlled before–after studies. While they acknowledge “retail clinics have become popular alternatives to traditional physician offices and emergency …
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