Cleveland Clinic Agrees to Supervise MinuteClinic Locations in NE Ohio
Cleveland Clinic announced today that it has formed a business relationship with CVS Pharmacy’s MinuteClinics in the greater Cleveland area.
Clinic physicians will provide medical oversight of MinuteClinics at several CVS pharmacies in northeast Ohio.
“The growth in this business is so enormous,” said Dr. David Bronson, chair of the Cleveland Clinic’s Medicine Institute. “We need to understand this and make sure this is integrated into a care system in some way that makes sense. We’re trying to give better care.”
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This pattern follows the anticipated healthcare business model that I wrote about last year after attending the Estes Park Institute Healthcare Leadership conference. ”The delivery of healthcare is beginning to decentralize,”said several of the conference speakers. ”Care that now requires a trip to the doctor’s office, (sometimes considerable) time in the waiting room, and a wait of hours (or days) for test results, will increasingly be available remotely or in the local (think Walmart clinic) community. ”
“The primary (conference) take-away message? Don’t expect tomorrow’s healthcare to look like today’s.”
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