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Advocate to buy Chicago Walgreens health clinics

The deal includes all 56 of the in-store clinics in the region


Walgreens will sell its Chicago-area health clinics to locally-based Advocate Health Care, according to an article on the Chicago Tribune website..

Walgreens has about 8,100 stores across the country but only about 400 of them have health clinics.

The Advocate deal is the second in recent months in which Walgreens has outsourced clinical operations.

Hospital systems are looking to improve access for patients and steer them away from more expensive emergency-room visits to treat routine ailments, the article said.

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January 15, 2016


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