Wal-Mart Teams With Local Hospitals to Open Clinics

A new approach after the failed attempt with the last vendor...might be a better approach with working with local hospitals...BD

After getting burned recently by a company running walk-in clinics in its stores, Wal-M art is teaming up with local hospital systems to open its own clinics.
Now Wal-Mart says it plans to open 400 clinics by 2010 under the truth-in-advertising brand name “The Clinic at Wal-Mart.” Retail clinics, which are also cropping up at chains like CVS and Walgreen, have sparked some opposition from the medical establishment. Maybe that’s part of the reason Wal-Mart is partnering with local hospitals and health-care systems.