Becker's Healthcare April 5, 2024
Retail healthcare disruptors’ fortunes have been heading in different directions lately.
While Walmart is expanding its healthcare centers and CVS is adding Oak Street Health clinics, Walgreens is moving the opposite way, closing dozens of VillageMD practices.
Walmart is opening 22 health centers in 2024. While adding fewer locations than originally planned (four in Oklahoma have been put on hold) and delaying others (six in Arizona are being built a few months later for construction reasons), the company’s retail healthcare arm is growing.
“I think what we’ve recognized from the beginning is it’s hard,” David Carmouche, MD, senior vice president of healthcare delivery for Walmart, told the Houston Chronicle. “We’d rather be a little bit more pragmatic, learn, develop something...
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