Yes, we know this initiative is not specifically about retail clinics, or US-style convenient care, but we just think that it’s incredibleness quotient is off the chain:
Clinics in pictures
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Apr 10
Community Health Centers and Retail Clinics: Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?
I mean, when I look at the map of community health center locations provided in this New England Journal of Medicine article: (Health Care Reform and Primary Care — The Growing Importance of the Community Health Center, 4/28/10), I say to myself “imagine if that many locations were served by retail clinics”.
And then I occasionally reply to myself, “well, why couldn’t the retail clinic operators do for some – and maybe many – community health centers what they have begun to do for employer-sponsored onsite clinics?” which is namely to supply operating expertise with special attention to the particular needs of the location’s clientele.
And then I frequently go “hmmmm….”
For the time-pressed, here is the map in question – though I strongly urge anyone following retail clinics to check out the entire article:
Nationwide Distribution of Community Health Center Sites, 2008.
Data are from the 2008 Uniform Data System, prepared by the Robert Graham Center, April 2010.
The accompanying map of the share of each state’s population that frequents CHCs is also information-rich:
Percentage of the Population of Each State Served by Community Health Centers, 2008
26
Mar 10
Video: Retail Clinics Branching Into Chronic Care Treatment
Nice ~ 4-minute-long clip of a MedPage Today news brief on MinuteClinic’s emerging plans for delivering chronic care services:
The accompanying story at MedPage Today also references Take Care Health’s chronic care initiatives.
Tip o’ the cap to PharmaGossip, where we saw it first.
6
Mar 10
Retail Health: Sights & Sounds
Not a regular feature exactly, but an apt catch-all title for items that have found their way into our Saturday morning catch-up mail.
So:
WFLI TV News clip on a clinic opening in West Lafayette IN, 2/21/10:
A shot of a billboard for an affordable health screening at a Walgreens, presumably somewhere in the USA, from a 2/12/10 New York Times piece titled What is ‘Affordable’ Health Care?:
A five-minute Today Show clip that aired last September, NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman at the helm, titled How Not To Get Sick. At the close, Dr. Snyderman offers a handful of tips regarding retail clinics, including this insightful one: “don’t go in sick” – that is, use clinics proactively, as simple wellness clinics, for optimum value.
A 90 second news spot on retail clinics that aired on Albuquerque NM’s KOAT-TV Action 7 News HealthBeat in November 2009 (just saying ‘Albuquerque’ makes us feel better):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX1tfZfS3p4
17
Aug 10
CNBC Loses At Retail Clinics
The Fast Money fast talkers are slow learners when it comes to retail clinics & convenient care. In fact, this clip suggests they have learned nothing whatsoever about the industry – but it didn’t stop them from making collective boobs of themselves. Witness: