Wal-Mart Will Expand In-Store Medical Clinics
Moving to upgrade its walk-in medical clinic business, Wal-Mart
is set to announce on Thursday plans for several hundred new
clinics at its stores, using a standardized format and jointly
branded with hospitals and medical groups.
The first of the new Clinic at Wal-Mart walk-in centers, as they will be called, is to open in Little Rock, Ark., in April and be run by nurse practioners employed by the St. Vincent Health System, a three-hospital group in central Arkansas.
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