Most retail clinics, popping up in drugstores and big box retailers around the country, are staffed by nurse practitioners and physicians assistants who treat only minor ailments. But MedStar plans to open clinics staffed by doctors in four Rite Aid stores in Maryland and DC, with the possibility of expanding into a dozen more clinics, the Baltimore Sun reports.
Doctors with Columbia’s MedStar Health soon will provide urgent care services at area Rite Aid stores, through a partnership the organizations plan to announce today.
Starting this summer, MedStar PromptCare clinics will roll out in four drugstores, two in the Baltimore region and two in the Washington area. The companies hope to add 12 more programs nationwide after studying results of the pilot program.
“Health care has been late to having a consumer focus, and consumers are increasingly demanding service in a variety of settings that are much more convenient,” said Eric R. Wagner, a senior vice president of managed care for MedStar, a nonprofit. “We’re taking health care to a place where consumers already are.”
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