WellStar and Walgreens Announce Clinical Collaboration Agreement
17 October 2013 - 2:29AM
Business Wire
Patients will have access to fully integrated
and coordinated clinic program between Healthcare Clinic at select
Walgreens and WellStar’s healthcare network
WellStar Health System and Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG)
today announced a clinical collaboration agreement that will
provide coordinated and expanded health care services, while
improving access to high-quality, convenient and affordable care
for patients in the northwest Atlanta market.
WellStar Urgent Care Centers and physician practices will work
with Healthcare Clinic at select Walgreens to handle serious
conditions outside of the clinics’ scope of practice, and to help
manage the treatment of chronic diseases. While Walgreens and
Healthcare Clinic strongly encourage all patients to have a
designated primary care physician and medical home for ongoing
needs, the collaboration will provide WellStar patients access to
quality care seven days a week. The collaboration will include
direct communication between WellStar physicians and Healthcare
Clinic nurse practitioners to facilitate care coordination and
sharing of patient information, and enhanced awareness of
Healthcare Clinic at select Walgreens and WellStar services.
“This collaboration extends quality care directly into our
communities to provide greater access for patients,” said Reynold
Jennings, WellStar president & CEO. “We believe our communities
will benefit from this type of collaborative model as we join
forces with Walgreens to deliver more coordinated care.”
With the Affordable Care Act expected to bring millions of new
patients into the healthcare system, the relationship aims to help
address some of the needs and challenges facing both patients and
healthcare providers.
“With the healthcare system today facing a myriad of challenges,
Healthcare Clinic at select Walgreens can play an important role in
enhancing patient access to quality, convenient and affordable
care,” said Alan E. London, chief medical officer, Consumer
Solutions Group, Walgreens. “Working with a highly integrated
health system such as WellStar offers an ideal opportunity to
further coordinate patient care in northwest Atlanta. We look
forward to working together to help patients in these communities
get, stay and live well.”
Healthcare Clinic at select Walgreens-area locations partnering
with WellStar include:
• 1762 Mars Hill Road, NW, Acworth
• 4120 Austell Road, Austell
• 9465 Highway 5, Douglasville
• 2779 N. Cobb Parkway, Kennesaw
• 2464 Roswell Road, Marietta
• 2988 Shallowford Road, Marietta
• 5230 Dallas Highway, Powder Springs
• 2670 Cobb Parkway, SE, Smyrna
About WellStar Health System
Recognized as the fifth most integrated healthcare delivery
system in the country, WellStar Health System is one of the largest
not-for-profit health systems in Georgia and serves a population of
nearly 1.4 million residents in five counties. The vision of
WellStar is to deliver world-class healthcare. A national leader in
the transformation of healthcare delivery, WellStar launched two
initiatives in late 2012 – the Center for Health Transformation and
the Georgia Health Collaborative – that will have far reaching
effects on healthcare both locally and nationally. WellStar
includes WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center (anchored
by WellStar Kennestone Hospital) and WellStar Cobb, Douglas,
Paulding and Windy Hill hospitals; the WellStar Medical Group;
Urgent Care Centers; Acworth Health Park; Health Place; Homecare;
Hospice; Atherton Place; Paulding Nursing Center; and the WellStar
Foundation. For more information, call 770-956-STAR or visit
wellstar.org.
About Walgreens
As the nation's largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2013 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 8,117 drugstores in all 50 states, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Take Care Health
Systems is a Walgreens subsidiary that is the largest and most
comprehensive manager of worksite health and wellness centers,
provider practices, and in-store convenient care clinics, with more
than 750 locations throughout the country.
FOR MEDIA INFORMATION:WellStar Media Smart Phone:
770-630-0106Jim Cohn, Walgreens,
847-315-2950jim.cohn@walgreens.com
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