Retail Clinics: The Bellin Experience

摘要

Although retail clinics remain a small portion of the overall healthcare system, CCCs clearly play an important role and will continue to be significant providers of care. The authors of the two feature articles articulate many of the opportunities and challenges that healthcare providers face in setting up retail clinic operations. Careful study and planning are needed to be sure that retail clinics are located where they are most needed and that partnerships are formed that create benefits for each entity involved. We agree wholeheartedly with the assessment in the article by Mason that "Retail medicine is here to stay and will be in the mix, even more than it is currently. The question that remains is the extent to which traditional providers find creative ways to join the retail team."