Retail Health Chains Keep Planting New Seeds. How Many Will Bear Fruit?

As we reported recently, Walgreens keeps buying properties to enhance its efforts to capture business in the primary care sector. Now, as reported by Healthcare Dive, Walmart Health says it’s going to open 28 new locations next year, including two in Missouri and Arizona—fresh territory for them. If they follow through, that will bring the total number of WH locations in the country to 75 since launching in 2019. It appears their niche will be offering care in underserved areas and locations in or adjacent to Walmart Supercenters. Walmart Health already has more legs than previous efforts by the company to make a new name for itself as a healthcare option. JUCM has covered those efforts along the way. Read Is Four Times a Charm for Walmart (Or, Could Walmart Be a Threat to Urgent Care)? for a bit of the history.