In-store health clinics start closing

September 30, 2006

So much for that threat to doctors - they didn’t even last a year in Portland, OR:

Rite Aid Corp.’s first experiment offering health clinics inside its stores ended when the clinic operator decided it could not turn a profit.

Take Care Health Systems told Rite Aid that it would close its last seven health clinics on Friday, less than a year after opening 10 of them in Rite Aids around Portland, Ore.

Update:
Link is fixed.





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{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Okulus October 1, 2006 at 9:14 am

To be replaced by cardboard pyramid displays of laxatives and sunscreen. Oh the humanity!

2 Criminallopath October 1, 2006 at 11:24 am

And yet, these will be the same people that will complain to no end about not having access to healthcare. On the brighter side, the free market has spoken. Now if we could only get the free market into the rest of the healthcare sector.

3 John J. Coupal October 3, 2006 at 9:00 am

The first three in-store ones are going to stay up and running. May be a convenience to get med care and medicines at the same location for busy - and not too really sick - patients.

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