Forbes September 3, 2019
Walter Loeb

This month Walmart will open a separate “Walmart Health” Care Center in its Dallas, Georgia, store. The opening is slated for September 13. This facility will provide low-priced health services for local customers that include dental, audiology, x-ray examinations, and mental health counseling. This is in direct response to CVS’s HealthHUB effort, as well as to regional hospitals opening urgent care centers in malls and cities.

Walmart has been running healthcare clinics in several southern states. But these additional services, which were first reported by CNBC, are an expanded effort by Walmart to compete with drugstore chains, which have opened medical services. According to a report by Retail Dive, CVS Health announced plans in June to expand its HealthHUB...

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