Becker's Healthcare May 31, 2024
Alan Condon

Dollar General and DocGo have mutually decided to end their mobile clinic pilot program 18 months after its launch, a spokesperson for Dollar General confirmed to Becker’s.

In January 2023, Dollar General and DocGo launched the pilot with three mobile clinics in three Tennessee locations. The mobile sites, set up in Dollar General parking lots, offered preventive care, urgent care and chronic condition management services in partnership with DocGo On-Demand.

Despite their location in a federally designated primary care shortage area, many customers passed over the clinic, KFF Health News said in an Oct. 4 report. After the first 10 months, about 1,000 patients had been seen in the clinics at Dollar General sites or community events.

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