Walgreens and Orlando Health Announce Clinical Collaboration Agreement
28 August 2013 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) and Orlando Health, a
comprehensive not-for-profit health care organization based in
Orlando, Fla., today announced a clinical collaboration that will
provide coordinated and expanded health care services, while
improving patient access to high-quality, convenient and affordable
care throughout Central Florida. The collaboration and services
offered will include:
- Greater access to care with Healthcare
Clinics at select Walgreens offering evening and weekend hours,
convenient locations and online appointment scheduling
- Coordination of care for Orlando Health
patients with Healthcare Clinic providers for acute, chronic and
preventive services
- Direct communication between Orlando
Health physicians and Healthcare Clinic nurse practitioners to
facilitate care coordination and sharing of patient
information
- Increasing patient awareness regarding
Orlando Health services, as well as information and awareness of
Healthcare Clinic services, including routine screening,
monitoring, immunizations, and clinic locations and hours
“In today’s health care landscape, these types of innovative
coordinated care programs are vitally important to help ensure
patients have access to the quality care they need,” said Jeffrey
Kang, M.D., Walgreens senior vice president of health and wellness
services and solutions. “With our expansive retail footprint,
diverse portfolio of health care assets and proven success in
collaborating with others in the medical community, Walgreens is
uniquely positioned to bridge critical gaps in care and improve
patient outcomes, furthering our mission to help patients get, stay
and live well.”
Walgreens and Orlando Health are also exploring opportunities to
share electronic medical records, with the goal of developing
read-only access to real-time patient medical information. This
level of coordination could also include creating online or call
center appointment scheduling technology to further increase
patient access to services.
“A key tenet of our mission is to improve the health of the
individuals in the communities we serve, and by utilizing new
approaches, such as this relationship with Walgreens, we’ll be able
to better reach and treat the patients of Central Florida,” said
Wayne Jenkins, M.D. MPH, president, Orlando Health Physician
Partners. “This relationship represents the type of collaborative
strategies that we view as essential in the emerging health care
environment. We’re confident that by working together our two
organizations can help ensure that patients are receiving the best
care, in the best locations, as well as a truly seamless care
experience.”
Orlando Health has six wholly-owned hospitals and two
partnership hospitals throughout Central Florida, a skilled nursing
facility, Physician Associates, one of the largest multi-specialty
physician practices in central Florida, consisting of more than 90
physicians in more than 20 locations, along with more than 2,500
affiliated physicians. The clinical collaboration includes 13
Healthcare Clinic locations at select Walgreens in nearby cities
including Orlando, Kissimmee, Apopka, Winter Springs, Clermont,
Lake Buena Vista, Lake Mary, Winter Park and Windermere,
Florida.
“Orlando Health is an established health care leader in Central
Florida, and its integrated approach to improving the community’s
health is a great strategic fit for Walgreens and our mission,”
Kang said.
About Walgreens
As the nation's largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2012 sales
of $72 billion, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) vision is to be the
first choice in health and daily living for everyone in America,
and beyond. Each day, Walgreens provides more than 6 million
customers the most convenient, multichannel access to consumer
goods and services and trusted, cost-effective pharmacy, health and
wellness services and advice in communities across America.
Walgreens scope of pharmacy services includes retail, specialty,
infusion, medical facility and mail service, along with respiratory
services. These services improve health outcomes and lower costs
for payers including employers, managed care organizations, health
systems, pharmacy benefit managers and the public sector. The
company operates 8,105 drugstores in all 50 states, the District of
Columbia and Puerto Rico. Take Care Health Systems is a Walgreens
subsidiary that is the largest and most comprehensive manager of
worksite health and wellness centers, medical practices, and
in-store convenient care clinics, with more than 700 locations
throughout the country.
About Orlando Health
Orlando Health is a $1.9 billion not-for-profit health care
organization and a community-based network of physician practices,
hospitals and care centers throughout Central Florida. Physician
Associates, one of the largest multi-specialty practices in central
Florida, consisting of more than 90 physicians in more than 20
locations, became a member of the Orlando Health family in January,
2013.
The organization, which includes the area’s only Level One
Trauma Centers for adults and pediatrics, is a statutory teaching
hospital system that offers both specialty and community hospitals.
They are: Orlando Regional Medical Center; Dr. P. Phillips
Hospital; South Seminole Hospital; Health Central Hospital, South
Lake Hospital (50 percent affiliation); St. Cloud Regional Medical
Center (20 percent affiliation), MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando
– the first affiliate of one of the nation’s premier cancer
centers, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in
Houston; and the Arnold Palmer Medical Center, which consists of
Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Winnie Palmer Hospital for
Women & Babies. Orlando Health’s areas of clinical excellence
are heart and vascular, cancer care, neurosciences, surgery,
pediatric orthopedics and sports medicine, neonatology, and women’s
health.
Orlando Health is one of Central Florida’s largest employers
with nearly 16,000 employees and more than 2,500 affiliated
physicians supporting our philosophy of providing high quality care
and service that revolves around patients’ needs. We prove this
everyday with over 110,000 inpatient admissions and nearly 690,000
outpatient visits each year. In all, Orlando Health serves 1.6
million Central Florida residents and nearly 3,000 international
patients annually. Additionally, Orlando Health provides
approximately $239 million in support of community health needs.
More information can be found at www.orlandohealth.com.
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