Walgreen Subsidiary To Open 100 More Retail Health Clinics

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Article Date: 04 Oct 2007 - 7:00 PDT

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Take Care Health Systems, a subsidiary of Walgreen that operates a chain of retail health clinics based in pharmacies, on Tuesday announced plans to open 100 additional clinics in nine new markets nationwide, the AP/Wichita Eagle reports.

Take Care, which Walgreen acquired in May, currently operates 63 clinics in Chicago; Kansas City, Mo.; Milwaukee, Wis.; and St. Louis. Under the expansion, Take Care will open clinics in Cincinnati; Cleveland; Houston; Las Vegas; Miami; Nashville, Tenn.; Orlando, Fla.; Tampa, Fla.; and Tucson, Ariz. By the end of 2008, Take Care will operate 400 clinics nationwide (AP/Wichita Eagle, 10/3).

Related Coverage
Summaries of two recent features on retail health clinics appear below.

• Dow Jones: More than half of the retail health clinics currently in operation nationwide opened this year, and experts estimate that the number of clinics will exceed 1,000 in 2008 and reach several thousand within five years, Dow Jones reports (Wisenberg Brin, Dow Jones, 10/2).
  
  
• Philadelphia Inquirer: The number of retail health clinics has increased from 150 in October 2006 to more than 500 today, and the Convenient Care Association expects the number of clinics to increase to 1,500 by the end of 2008 and to 3,000 in 2009, the Inquirer reports (Burling, Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/26).

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