Emory Healthcare Teams Up With CVS Walk-in Clinics by Misty Williams. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. November 30, 2012.
Emory Healthcare is now teamed with 31 CVS CareMark Minute Clinics in the Atlanta area. While nurse practitioners will see the patients, they can, under the arrangement, now turn to Emory physicians for advice on diagnosis and treatment. The clinics increase the traffic in CVS stores while lessening the pressure on expensive Emory ER visits. This is just one of the many types of partnerships developing around the country. Mentioned in the article is cooperation between home health care firms and hospitals in order to lower readmission rates which will be increasingly penalized by the federal government.
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