Georgia Is First State For Walmart’s ‘Health Center’

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November 4th, 2019

Retail medical clinics — located in drugstores or other retail outlets — have spread across the country since 2000. They cater to people looking for convenient hours and accessible locations. These clinics are an echo of an earlier tradition in small-town America, when doctors set up their offices near drugstores to spare their patients the extra travel.

Courtesy of Georgia Health News

This Walmart in the western Atlanta suburbs looks at first glance like the retail giant’s other Supercenters.

But the right edge of the long building in the town of Dallas has an appendage with a separate entrance, almost like a separate store. In a way, that’s what it is.

Since September, the Paulding County Supercenter has been the site of Walmart’s first “health center’’ in the nation.

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