March 2009 - Posts

Leadership in Retail Health: Refining the Model
March 25, 2009 10:27 AM by Elizabeth Jones

Leadership in unchartered terrain presents unique challenges especially in the midst of a volatile economic climate… Are we making the rules up in retail health as we go? Absolutely not. However, we are becoming proactive in our incessant efforts to refine Read More...

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Free Screening as a Marketing Tool
March 23, 2009 9:25 AM by Theresa Goodman

Retail clinics continue to struggle with finding new ways to expand their services and become known in the community. There are several ways to accomplish this mission: advertising, word of mouth and grassroots marketing. The technique of providing free Read More...

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Retail Clinicians and the In-Store Pharmacy
March 16, 2009 9:33 AM by Pat Bird

I am very thankful for the good relationship we have with our pharmacy. Our clinic is located inside a grocery store that has a pharmacy. The pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are great. They are well known to the community as most of the patients Read More...

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Innovation in Convenient Care
March 11, 2009 11:30 AM by Sharon Ledbetter

Presently the scope of practice in Retail Clinics is limited to minor acute illness. In the future there seem to be many areas of preventive care that the idea of convenient and lower priced would work well with. Blood pressures and offering other screening Read More...

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True Convenience
March 3, 2009 9:45 AM by Jodi Delagrave

As the cough, cold and influenza season begins the volume of patients swells in the retail health setting. For many patients this is their first experience using a retail clinic, but hopefully not their last. Unlike utilizing an urgent care, our clinics Read More...

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