MinuteClinic
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{{Infobox company
| name =MinuteClinic
| logo = File:MinuteClinicLogo2014.png
| logo_size = 250px
| type = Subsidiary
| foundation = {{start date and age|2000|3}} (as QuickMedx, Inc.)
| parent = CVS Health
| location = Woonsocket, Rhode Island, U.S.
| locations = 800 (Dec 2013){{cite web|url=http://edgar.secdatabase.com/2440/110465913011354/filing-main.htm |title=CVS Caremark, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Feb 15, 2013 |publisher=secdatabase.com |accessdate =March 29, 2013}}
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| homepage = [https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic www.cvs.com/minuteclinic ]
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MinuteClinic is a division of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) that provides retail clinic services.{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/21/695216345/cvs-looks-to-make-its-drugstores-a-destination-for-health-care|title=CVS Looks To Make Its Drugstores A Destination For Health Care|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2020-04-14}} MinuteClinic was initially started as QuickMedx{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2003/09/29/daily22.html|title=QuickMedx to become MinuteClinic|last=|first=|date=30 September 2003|website=Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-14}} by Dr. Douglas Smith and his patient Rick Krieger, along with Stephen Pontius in Minneapolis, Minnesota. MinuteClinic has more than 1,100 locations in 33 states and the District of Columbia. MinuteClinic was acquired by CVS in July 2006.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2006/07/10/daily30.html|title=CVS to buy MinuteClinic|last=|first=|date=13 July 2006|website=Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-14}}
MinuteClinic is the first retail health care provider to receive an accreditation from The Joint Commission.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2006/10/23/story12.html|title=MinuteClinic gets JCAHO accreditation|last=Wilbert|first=Lauren|date=22 October 2006|website=Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-14}}
Services and hours
MinuteClinics are staffed by nurse practitioners and physician assistants.{{Cite web|url=http://www.naplesnews.com/news/local/patients-turn-to-nurse-practitioners-physician-assistants-third-in-a-series-ep-399048823-344075232.html|title=Patients turn to nurse practitioners, physician assistants (third in a series)|website=www.naplesnews.com|language=en|access-date=2020-04-14}} Services offered by MinuteClinics include vaccinations for viruses such as influenza, tetanus-pertussis, pneumovax, and Hepatitis A & B. They also provide sports and camp physicals, Department of Transportation physicals, sexual transmitted disease (STD) testing and treatment, contraception services, smoking cessation, and TB testing.
MinuteClinics are located inside CVS/pharmacy stores and some Target stores.{{Cite web|url=https://medcitynews.com/2019/07/kaiser-permanente-partners-with-minuteclinic-to-cover-services-for-traveling-members/|title=Kaiser Permanente partners with MinuteClinic to cover services for traveling members|last=Truong|first=Kevin|date=2019-07-23|website=MedCity News|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-14}} MinuteClinics accept most insurance plans.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}
Locations
The following states have MinuteClinic locations:
Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Washington DC
Criticism
MinuteClinics, like other convenience care clinics, replace visits patients might otherwise have with their primary care provider, limiting the opportunities for a PCP to develop that relationship, potentially fragmenting the patient's health care. Previously, the clinics did not have the patient's medical record. [http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/mdmama/2014/02/why_doctors_worry_about_minute_clinics--and_what_they_should_learn_from_them.html Why doctors worry about Minute Clinics--and what they should learn from them] Claire McCarthy, Boston Globe, February 24, 2014 However, recent advances in medical records systems now allow clinicians to access records from patients’ primary clinic with their permission. In 2014, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that parents not use retail-based clinics for their children.{{cite journal
| title =From the American Academy of Pediatrics. Policy Statement. AAP Principles Concerning Retail-Based Clinics.
| journal =Pediatrics
| date =March 1, 2014
| volume =133
| issue =3
| pages =e794–e797
| url =http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/133/3/e794
| doi =10.1542/peds.2013-4080
| pmid =24567015
| pmc =
| author=Laughlin JJ, Simon GR, Baker C, Barden GA, Brown OW, Hardin A, Lessin HR, Meade K, Moore S, Rodgers CT
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They updated those recommendations in 2017, to state “ The Academy recommends that physicians coordinate with urgent care and retail-based clinics, to ensure high-quality services outside the medical home.”
MinuteClinics are now providing primary care, as well as management of some chronic diseases such as diabetes, pulmonary diseases, and hypertension in many states. The expansion of primary care services is in conjunction with the growing need for primary care providers across the country. MinuteClinics now provide drive-thru Covid-19 testing at select locations in concert with labs such as Quest Diagnostics.