sas5814 Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 Walmart Interesting one of these finally failed. Most of these places sell their soul for money and generally do poor medicine. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoTrion Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 I saw this today as well. I am sure the telehealth will still be booming due to less overhead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boatswain2PA Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 Why wasn't it profitable? Mega management ensuring protocol/new NP grad driven care, with "go to the ED to get checked out" seems to be a good idea financially. Anyone know where the financial failure was? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted May 1 Moderator Share Posted May 1 I ,for one, am happy to see the failure of this retail medicine clinic. That is a terrible business model , prioritizing profit over quality care. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boatswain2PA Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 8 hours ago, EMEDPA said: I ,for one, am happy to see the failure of this retail medicine clinic. That is a terrible business model , prioritizing profit over quality care. Concur. I just wonder how it COULD fail financially. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SedRate Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Boatswain2PA said: Concur. I just wonder how it COULD fail financially. Random news articles quote a Walmart spokesperson stating, "Healthcare is expensive to run... increased labor and operating costs environment, like with reimbursement... made it difficult and obvious we had to close." Edited May 1 by SedRate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boatswain2PA Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 1 minute ago, SedRate said: Random news articles quote a Walmart spokesperson stating, "Healthcare is expensive to run... increased labor and operating costs environment, like with reimbursement... made it difficult and obvious we had to close." Yeah, I saw that, just doesn't make sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SedRate Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 2 minutes ago, Boatswain2PA said: Yeah, I saw that, just doesn't make sense. Probably something to do with supply and demand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAAdmission Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 9 hours ago, EMEDPA said: That is a terrible business model , prioritizing profit over quality care. That's pretty much all of corporate healthcare these days, event the so-called "non-profit" places. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boatswain2PA Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 17 minutes ago, SedRate said: Probably something to do with supply and demand. Probably a good guess. Along with hyper-regulation and insurance monopolies 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted May 2 Moderator Share Posted May 2 On 5/1/2024 at 5:21 AM, Boatswain2PA said: Probably a good guess. Along with hyper-regulation and insurance monopolies yup. if you are paying a new grad np $50/hr to see URIs at $25/each and they only see 0.5/hr it is hard to make those #s work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconic Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 I think it's as simple as people don't trust Walmart with their health 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo1 Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 These clinics were a bad idea from the start. Large portions of their customer population are in lower socioeconomic brackets, and most likely have poor insurance or no coverage; these are the same pts we see in EM who have multiple concurrent health issues and utilize the ED as their PCP. Now imagine those same pts going to a Walmart clinic to have all those issues managed, often by an overburdened supervising attending supplemented with undertrained NPs ( and sometimes PAs) addressing several comorbidities in an improperly resourced environment. It borders on predatory behavior, because these pts don't have the wherewithal to set up with a PCP and our legislative bodies view "some healthcare" as better than "no healthcare" (which paradoxically leads to more problems). Anecdote: A Peds nurse that worked in our ED did her NP coursework on overnight shifts (telling as to how busy they were), got a job in Pain after graduating and transitioned to a Walmart clinic. No experience in primary care whatsoever, no experience with adult pts managing bread-and-butter conditions. We also have several ED nurses in NP school who are looking at PCP jobs, and don't even know about Choosing Wisely or the USPSTF. This is what corporate bodies like Walmart look for. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator ventana Posted May 4 Moderator Share Posted May 4 Maybe the providers treated it just like a job instead of a profession. Move slow. Take breaks. Do the bare minimum (corp USA takes advantage of the giving nature of health care professionals). Maybe this was a showing of what happens when providers act like a simple employ and stop working so hard for free?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SedRate Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 11 hours ago, ventana said: Maybe the providers treated it just like a job instead of a profession. ... Do the bare minimum (corp USA takes advantage of the giving nature of health care professionals). Maybe this was a showing of what happens when providers act like a simple employ and stop working so hard for free?? Definitely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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