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Walgreens is on monitor to open 100 Well being Corners by the tip of the yr as a part of the pharmacy chain’s effort to assist well being plan subscribers higher handle continual circumstances.
Walgreens Well being Corners are totally different than the greater than 1,100 MinuteClinics staffed by nurse practitioners or the Village Medical at Walgreens clinics staffed by physicians which can be additionally being rolled out subsequent to drugstores throughout the nation. Walgreens executives say the well being corners, which have devoted house in shops or digitally through the corporate’s app “act as connective tissue to assist sufferers keep on monitor, particularly after they’re between physician’s visits.”
The well being corners, that are a part of the corporate’s Walgreens Well being division, supply well being plan members entry to “well being advisors” who embody pharmacists or registered nurses who work collaboratively with the well being plans. Walgreens last month partnered with Buckeye Health Plan, an Ohio Medicaid insurer, “to carry progressive well being and wellness providers to Medicaid members in 5 northeast Ohio neighborhood places this summer season.”
The Buckeye Well being Plan partnership is the third well being plan Walgreens has negotiated and can lead to 5 new well being nook places open by the tip of summer season.
On Thursday, Walgreens chief government officer Roz Brewer stated the Buckeye Well being Plan partnership is a lift to the corporate’s monetary targets for this yr for Walgreens Well being. “Walgreens Well being achieved 65% professional forma gross sales progress with progress on a number of fronts, together with including Buckeye Well being Plan as a strategic accomplice, already exceeding our 2022 goal for coated lives, and launching our scientific trials enterprise,” she stated within the firm’s fiscal third quarter earnings announcement.
There are presently 55 Well being Nook places open in California and New Jersey and people numbers will rise to 60 with the Ohio additions by the tip of the summer season with Walgreens on monitor to open 100 by the tip of 2022, Walgreens said.
“Healthcare is inherently native,” stated John Do, interim president and chief monetary officer of Walgreens Well being. “Our collaboration with Buckeye Well being Plan will enable us to tailor our well being providers based mostly on the wants of the Medicaid members and communities we serve. These providers are designed to cut back gaps between advisable greatest practices for a affected person’s care and the care that is truly offered, in addition to to enhance care administration and coordination by entry to extra reasonably priced and handy providers the place Buckeye Well being Plan members dwell.”
