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Target severs ties with MinuteClinic

NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Oct. 9, 2006

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Target Corp. announced Sept. 18 that it has partnered with Medcor to open in-store health clinics at eight of its stores in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

The Minnesota-based retailer had previously worked with MinuteClinic. But that relationship ended after a Target competitor, CVS Corp., acquired MinuteClinic this summer, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Medcor, of McHenry, Ill., provides outsourced occupational health services to businesses, government agencies and other organizations. The health clinics will be staffed by nurse practitioners who will treat nonemergent problems.

Separately, Take Care Health Systems Inc., Conshohocken, Pa., has announced expansion of its in-store clinic market operations to Pittsburgh.

During the week of Sept. 18, Take Care opened three in-store clinics and will open another seven in October, all at Eckerd drug stores in Pittsburgh.

By the end of October, Take Care Health System will be operating 29 retail-based health clinics in Kansas, Missouri and Pennsylvania. That number will rise to 49 when it opens clinics at 20 Walgreen Co. drug stores in the Chicago area by the end of the year, said Lauren Tierney, a spokeswoman for Take Care Health Systems.

Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2006/10/09/bibf1009.htm.

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