For satisfied consumers, receiving low-cost, non-urgent health care services at a retail clinic is an attractive alternative to traditional long waits in a physician’s office. As a less costly alternative to primary care physician or emergency room...

Feeling sick – or you have a kid who does – but you find out that your doctor’s office can’t fit you in for another week? Primary-care physicians aren’t the only game in town. In fact, you have several places to turn, including urgent care clinics,...

The Convenient Care Association, along with the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Deloitte and The Drug Store News Group’s Retail Clinician, is presenting this month a forum to discuss the growth and evolution of retail-based health clinics. The...

Retail clinic operators want potential patients to know that they do more than treat the common cold and administer flu shots. In recent months clinics have announced the addition of several new services, such as asthma and diabetes management; more...

The next time you go to the drugstore to pick up shampoo or paper towels, you might get that cough checked out, too. More than a quarter of the U.S. population lives within a 10-minute drive from a retail walk-in medical clinic (or convenient care...