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Few walk-in clinics servepoor,studysays
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Published: May 26, 2009
Walk-in retail clinics in grocery and drugstore chains can help the uninsured find health care, proponents say. However, a new study suggests most retail clinics aren't in the poorest neighborhoods.
Like most businesses, they go where the money is - to more affluent neighborhoods, which happen to be well-served by other medical resources.
"Many people have promoted retail clinics as a cure for access to care for the underserved," said Ateev Mehrotra of the University of Pittsburgh, who studies retail clinics but wasn't involved in the research. "These findings show that's unlikely to happen."
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