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Take Care Clinic is now called Healthcare Clinic at Walgreens,
to create a consistent experience across Walgreens stores,
pharmacies and retail clinics. And with the same great care that
patients like Kaden Godwin and her mother, Valerie, have grown to
trust, this year Healthcare Clinic locations began offering even more
services, such as the assessment, treatment and management for
chronic conditions, as well as additional preventive health and wellness
services that promote good health. Customers can now find in-store
clinic locations, services and information through Walgreens.com/clinic,
reinforcing Walgreens as a healthcare destination.
For Linda Stover, Healthcare Clinic nurse practitioner and clinic
manager in Phoenix, a caring spirit and concern for patients’
well-being runs in the family. Her mother was a nurse and Linda
followed in her footsteps, spending 13 years as a critical care and
emergency room nurse before going back to school to receive her
advanced degree as a family nurse practitioner. Nurse practitioners
like Linda, and other healthcare practitioners such as physician
assistants, staff the clinics seven days a week, 363 days a year,
taking walk-ins and appointments during the day, evenings and
weekends. This flexibility makes the Healthcare Clinic an ideal
destination for working parents, travelers and anyone needing
convenient and affordable care.
Walgreens convenient access to healthcare services isn’t limited to
clinics inside retail stores. Employers like United Airlines and Toyota
offer on-site clinic and pharmacy services at their workplaces to help
employees stay well and reduce healthcare costs for the employer.
And hospitals, medical groups and other health systems have
contracted with Walgreens to provide pharmacy services, offering
convenience and continuity of care for patients as they’re discharged.
More than 10,000 seniors, like 84-year-old Donald Woods,
become eligible for Medicare each day. As Walgreens
considered this growing population, the company saw great
opportunities to offer its pharmacy services to meet the needs
of those covered by Medicare – in particular, Medicare Part D,
a federal program that subsidizes the cost of prescription
medications for seniors. In addition to helping seniors navigate
the complexities of their prescription drug coverage by offering
free Medicare prescription plan reviews, Walgreens was
designated as a preferred pharmacy by three leading Medicare
Part D plan sponsors, including the nation’s largest Part D plan.
Members of these Part D plans who fill prescriptions at
Walgreens may realize significant cost savings on co-payments
compared to filling prescriptions at non-preferred pharmacies.
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million
8.5
total
immunizations
in FY 2013
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