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		<title>Could Obamacare boost retail health clinics?</title>
		<link>http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/2012/10/could-obamacare-boost-retail-health-clinics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/?p=1163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Star Tribune reports on the potential effect of 30 million new insured Americans that could begin shopping for more health care in 2014, as a result of the new health care law. Retail-based health providers like CVS Caremark (which owns the Minnesota-founded Minute Clinic) and Target Corp.&#8217;sown Target Clinics could see an influx of new business — though not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Number of People Visiting Retail Clinics Quadruples</title>
		<link>http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/2012/08/number-of-people-visiting-retail-clinics-quadruples/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/?p=1157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The number of patients visiting retail clinics has rocketed from 1.48 million in 2006 to 5.97 million in 2009 — more than a fourfold increase, according to a new study from Health Affairs. The study is based on information for 2007 through 2009 from MinuteClinic, Take Care and Little Clinic. These are the three largest retail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designating the Week of August 6 through August 10, 2012, as “National Convenient Care Clinic Week”</title>
		<link>http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/2012/08/senate-resolution-540/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/?p=1154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whereas convenient care clinics are health care facilities located in high-traffic retail outlets that provide affordable and accessible care to patients who have little time to schedule an appointment with a traditional primary care provider or are otherwise unable to schedule such an appointment; Whereas millions of people in the United States do not have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take Care Clinics launches mobile appointment-setting app with iTriage</title>
		<link>http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/2012/08/take-care-clinics-launches-mobile-appointment-setting-app-with-itriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Take Care Health Clinics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/?p=1151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has launched a pilot program offering patients mobile and online appointment scheduling services through consumer healthcare application iTriage. The scheduling functionality now is available in both the Chicago and Denver markets. “Today’s consumers are increasingly turning to their mobile devices to access health care information and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In-store clinics look to be a remedy for healthcare law influx</title>
		<link>http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/2012/07/in-store-clinics-look-to-be-a-remedy-for-healthcare-law-influx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CVS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Target]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/?p=1148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you thought it was hard getting a doctor&#8217;s appointment now, just wait until 30 million more Americans join the line. Nearly 3 in 4 California counties already lack a sufficient number of family physicians, and by 2020 the U.S. faces an estimated shortage of 40,000 primary-care doctors with no way to remedy that in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MinuteClinic Joins with American Heart Association to Help Americans Reduce High Blood Pressure</title>
		<link>http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/2012/07/minuteclinic-joins-with-american-heart-association-to-help-americans-reduce-high-blood-pressure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[MinuteClinic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/?p=1146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of an ongoing effort to help Americans reduce high blood pressure, MinuteClinic, the retail health care division of CVS Caremark , is joining with the American Heart Association in a nationwide effort to improve the identification, treatment and management of high blood pressure. According to the American Heart Association, one in three American adults [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CVS Caremark Has Healthy Lead Over Competitors With Retail Clinics</title>
		<link>http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/2012/07/cvs-caremark-has-healthy-lead-over-competitors-with-retail-clinics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 02:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[MinuteClinic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/?p=1143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CVS Caremark, the U.S.&#8217;s second-largest drug retailer, has expanded its retail health-care clinic footprint to 650 in the last five years and plans to add another 350 by 2016. Through MinuteClinics at its pharmacy locations, CVS Caremark has significantly outpaced its competitors Walgreens and Wal-Mart Stores in the race to provide basic health care through retail-based walk-in medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Little Clinic partners with University of Louisville Physicians</title>
		<link>http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/2012/07/the-little-clinic-partners-with-university-of-louisville-physicians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Little Clinic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/?p=1141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Little Clinic has announced a collaborative affiliation with the University of Louisville Physicians’ Preventive Cardiology practice, which marks the third affiliation that The Little Clinic has formed with a medical group. The partnership focuses on the management of hypertension for patients currently without a primary care physician. The relationship will create more convenient and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Convenience And Efficiency Fuel Boom In Retail Clinics</title>
		<link>http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/2012/06/convenience-and-efficiency-fuel-boom-in-retail-clinics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/2012/06/convenience-and-efficiency-fuel-boom-in-retail-clinics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/?p=1138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, there&#8217;s been a debate about how walk-in clinics at stores fit into the health care mix. Are they an adequate substitute for a visit to the doctor? Through it all, the number of clinics has kept growing, numbering 1,355 at the beginning of 2012, a 10.4 percent annual increase, according to consultants Merchant Medicine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wal-Mart trails on opening in-store medical clinics</title>
		<link>http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/2012/06/wal-mart-trails-on-opening-in-store-medical-clinics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Clinic at Walmart]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.retailhealthcarenews.com/?p=1136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which once plotted thousands of in-store clinics to provide basic, front-line medical care, has fallen far behind rival&#8217;s efforts. The Wall Street Journal reports that the retailing giant closed 33 in-store clinics this year, bringing its total down to 149. It&#8217;s also changing how it partners with hospitals and doctors. Unlike some other [...]]]></description>
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