As longtime mall anchors J.C. Penney, Sears, and Macy's falter, shopping mall owners are looking to grocery stores, restaurants, fitness centers, and
even health care clinics as chief drivers of foot traffic.
Not exact matches
But as
health care costs climb — employers pay 36 % more today than they did five years ago — companies are betting on long - term cost savings with their own
clinics staffed with physicians, nurses,
even chiropractors, physical therapists and pharmacists.
NEW YORK (Reuters
Health)-
Even children who have pediatricians sometimes get
care from retail medical
clinics like the ones in large drugstore chains, according to a survey of parents near St. Louis.
«There's definitely confusion —
even for doctors — because there simply isn't much clear - cut evidence to guide doctors one way or another,» says Anne Rex, DO, a primary
care sports medicine physician at Cleveland
Clinic Sports
Health.
While there has been a gradual increase in the number of school - based
health clinics, which provide preventive and remedial
care and
even crisis interventions,
clinics serve only a small minority of students, and few states and districts have policies in place to help them scale up and become sustainable.
A collar not only identifies your puppy as owned, but the tag can also provide detailed information that includes his name, your phone number or
even the vet
clinic that
cares for his
health.
Maintaining local networks can allow for more control (unless someone hacks it or someone is careless), but as a patient who has lived in three provinces and experienced my «local» and regular
health care in more than one doctor's office or
clinic in each of those provinces (I am not
even including having tests at different hospitals), the delivery of medical
care hasn't seemed «local» to me.
Even when I was on the PPO plan, for the most part I would visit the PPO plan's
health centers — low - cost
clinics that were great for routine checkups, wellness program, and urgent
care.
But, with the introduction of the insurance - based model of
health care, the presence of several unregulated private
clinics will be clipped, leading to easy access of
health care services
even to the poorer sections of our society.»