With Its Eye On Customer Demand For Convenience, Scripps To Launch A Dozen Walk-In Health Clinics
Services will include care for those with flu symptoms, ear infections, sinus infections, urinary tract infections, skin conditions, bites, stings and minor cuts, burns and wounds.
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Scripps To Open 12 New Walk-In Clinics
Scripps Health plans to have a dozen new walk-in health clinics with extended morning and evening hours up and running by the end of September, the health system announced Monday. Dubbed “Scripps HealthExpress” the small facilities will be built along the same lines as those often stationed inside some stores run by CVS, Target and Albertson’s. But, unlike many that have come before it, Scripps is staying away from the retail world, choosing instead to locate its new clinic collection at existing Scripps Clinic and Scripps Coastal outpatient medical office complexes. (Sisson, 7/16)
In other news from across the state —
Modesto Bee:
Why Stanislaus County Is Weighing Its Future In Offering Health Care Services
Tuesday, county supervisors will consider exploring options for ending the county’s role as a provider of clinical services for some of the poorest county residents. The county closed its hospital on Scenic Drive in 1997, but the Health Services Agency has continued operating primary care, specialty and physical rehabilitation clinics. (Carlson, 7/16)
The Associated Press:
San Francisco To Consider Tax On Companies To Help Homeless
San Francisco voters will decide in November whether to tax large businesses to pay for homeless and housing services, an issue that set off a battle in another West Coast city struggling with income inequality. The city elections department verified Monday that supporters had collected enough signatures to get the measure on the ballot. It would raise about $300 million a year — doubling what San Francisco spends on homelessness — for more shelter beds and housing for people who are homeless or at risk of becoming so. (7/16)