Fierce Health Technology July 27, 2021
VillageMD and retail healthcare giant Walgreens are expanding their primary care footprint with new Village Medical at Walgreens practices in northern Indiana.
The new clinics will open in Merrillville, Griffith, Portage and South Bend this year. The strategic partnership is on track to meet its overall goal of opening at least 600 physician-staffed clinics inside its drugstores in more than 30 U.S. markets over the next four years, with the intent to build hundreds more.
The expansion is part of the $1 billion accelerated investment effort announced in January 2021 to deliver direct healthcare services to patients, with Village Medical primary care physicians and Walgreens pharmacy services through a coordinated care delivery model.
The retail healthcare giant is moving quickly...