Quick Care Clinics (Emerging Industry Overview)

This paper provides an overview of the quick care clinics industry, primarily in the United States. These aredefined as retail medical facilities that usually are located within the pharmacy section of drugstores, grocery stores or discount department stores.

Emerging Industry Overview: Quick Care Clinics

Industry Snapshot

Quick care clinics are retail medical facilities that usually are located within the pharmacy section of drugstores, grocery stores, or discount department stores such as Wal-Mart or Target. They are referred to by a variety of names, such as walk-in clinics, immediate care facilities, and convenient care centers. The medical and business communities refer to quick care clinics as retail health clinics.

Although some clinics are staffed by physicians, most are staffed by licensed nurse practitioners, health care professionals who are registered nurses with advanced training to diagnose and treat common medical...

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