Companies Are Starting to Invest in Clinics for Savings and Better Employee Health
Covid-19 has put a renewed focus on employee health and the need for employees to be able to return to work and do so safely regardless. This has sped up a trend that was already taking place before the pandemic: large corporations are investing in their own in-house clinics and health care facilities.
With the rise of the cost of healthcare in the United States, health insurance and employee healthcare has been a drag on company balance sheets. Companies with the money and foresight to do so, are piloting their own medical clinics to bring those costs down.
Walmart has opened 5 locations in the last year that offer primary care, imaging, lab, dental and behavioral health services to consumers and employees at low prices regardless of insurance status. Most of the locations are in Georgia with the newest location as a standalone clinic in Newnan Georgia. The only clinic outside Georgia is in Arkansas although Walmart has plans to open two more clinics in Illinois by the end of this year and is working on plans for expanding into Florida sometime next year.
The rapid roll out of these clinics must mean that Walmart has been happy with the success of their clinics so far and is eager to jump on these opportunities. Walmart has been called a “sleeping giant…
