There have been about 2,000 retail well being clinics (RHCs) in the USA between 2018 and 2020 that offered handy well being companies inside pharmacies, grocery shops and supercenter retailers however most had been in metropolitan areas, in line with a brand new database created by the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
Most (950) of those RHCs had been within the South area and amongst divisions, the South Atlantic had the most important quantity (550).
The Linked Retail Well being Clinics (LiRHC) database – a part of the Census Bureau’s EHealth Program – is step one in a multi-phase collaboration to determine RHC areas.
Future phases will look at populations dwelling close to retail well being clinics, different well being care suppliers situated close to these clinics, and the enterprise traits of shops which have RHCs.
About 97% of RHCs had been in metropolitan statistical areas (which have at the very least one urbanized space with a inhabitants of fifty,000 or extra) moderately than in much less densely populated areas.
