Health System Transfers Its Pharmacies to Walgreens; Manages Regional Retail Clinics

One interesting aspect of the emergence of retail clinics in drug stores is the business model being used by these companies for staffing these clinics with medical personnel. CVS staffs its MinuteClinics with nurse practitioners (NPs) who, incidentally, have anaverage hourly pay of $52. Staffing clinics with NPs rather than physicians obviously places limits on the type of patients who can be treated in the there. Another model, being pursued by Walgreens, is to select a regional healthcare provider to manage and staff the clinics. The details of such an arrangement were provided by a recent article (see:MCLAREN HEALTH CARE SEES NEW WALGREENS CLINICS AS ITS FRONT DOOR). Below is an excerpt from the article:McLaren Health Care...inked a deal...with Walgreens to hand over 14 of its pharmacy locations to the national chain and open a still-undetermined number of McLaren retail clinics inside Walgreens stores. Intertwining their operations gives Walgreens an opportunity to expand its partnerships with prominent local and regional health systems as its competitors vie for market dominance through mergers and acquisitions, and it gives McLaren a chance to deepen ties to the communities it serves.This possible deepening of ties with consumers is forefront in the minds of McLaren's leaders as they begin the process of selecting the number and locations of retail clinics to be opened in the near term, says Barton P. Buxton, EdD, president and CEO of the McLaren ...
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