Hospital leaders take major risks by ignoring the retail clinic phenomenon. As the industry’s leading expert in this field, Mary Kate Scott offers a timely, complete, and practical guide to help hospital management craft an optimal response to retail clinics, which may include operating their own retail clinics, partnering, or using retail clinic principles in existing hospital operations. The guide includes decision-making tools and...
Retail Clinics – Friend or Foe of the Hospital ? (Part One)
The opportunity for hospitals to win with a retail clinic model By Mary Kate Scott, for HealthLeaders Media Considering that they’re the smallest players in the healthcare arena, retail clinics get a lot of attention. In an industry that has seen dozens of hotly contested (and failed) approaches over the years to achieving “right care, right provider, right time, right cost,” retail clinics are a rare thing: a model that truly...
Retail Clinics – Friend or Foe of the Hospital? (Part Two)
Tools to assess the potential impact on patient and physician populations, economics, and brand By Mary Kate Scott, for HealthLeaders Media Part I of this article discussed the retail clinic model, the increase in clinics, and the consumer interest in clinics, with particular emphasis on the surprising fact that more than a third of the clinic operator companies are part of hospital systems. Retail clinics typically generate a modest $1 million...
A Clinic at Walmart?
This guide and toolkit includes a comprehensive review of the Walmart retail healthcare clinic option for hospitals, healthcare systems and other healthcare providers. This independent report includes the facts and financials, and a guide to the lease process that will inform the decision making of a management team. This guide will be updated quarterly. Free updates are included duringthe first 12 months. $495 includes the report, tools,...
Health Care in the Express Lane: Retail Clinics Go Mainstream
Mary Kate Scott, Scott and Company September 2007 An update to the 2006 report on retail clinics, this report explores the industry’s development and its integration with the health care system, as well as the challenges involved in establishing retail clinics in California. Located in drug stores, groceries, and other mass merchandisers, and offering a limited menu of services, retail-based health clinics have captured the attention of...