Dive Summary:

• According to reports released by Tom Charland of Merchant Medicine, retail clinics rose in number roughly 7% during the same period in 2012.
• The majority of the expansion throughout the U.S. is fueled by CVS and Walgreen’s popular retail health clinics.
• “We continue to see evidence of new services and approaches in the retail clinic market that are helping to solidify the financial model and setting the stage for an acceleration of new clinics over the next few years,” states Charland in the report.

From the article:

Even when they are not opening new clinics, retailers are expanding services. Walgreen, for example, said in April its clinics were getting into “management for chronic conditions,” providing new services that include “assessment, treatment and management for chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, asthma and others, as well as additional preventive health services.”