Boston, MA 09/25/2014 (wallstreetpr) – According to reports, CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) has announced to enter into clinical affiliations with three academic medical centers. The main objective of this deal is nothing but to increase the high-quality health care service for patients at very affordable rates.
Insights of the clinical affiliation deal:
CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) has targeted three leading academic medical centers such as University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, University of Maryland Medical System and University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System. After the new clinical affiliation with these three medical centers, patients will get an access to medication counseling, clinical support, wellness programs and chronic disease monitoring at MinuteClinic and CVS. Here MinuteClinic is the well-acclaimed retail, medical clinic division of CVC health.
CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) is also looking forward to integrating electronic medical record (EMR) systems, with the help of which, it would provide visit information and critical prescription to all three medical centers. Currently, CVC pharmacy is considered as one of the best pharmacies of the nation with close to 7,700 retail pharmacy outlets across the country. Customers suffering from chronic disease medications can avail counseling from experienced pharmacists at these outlets. Other than the normal outlets, there are 900 MinuteClinic walk-in medical clinics available across the country. The best thing about these MinuteClinic walk-in medical clinics is that they are open seven days a week during evening hours and patients don’t need to have prior appointments to visit them. These medical clinics accept almost all the health insurances. CVC employs physician assistants and nurse practitioners at these medical clinics who administer wellness and prevention services and provide treatment for illness to patients suffering from chronic disease. The management of CVC is quite hopeful from the new clinical affiliations and looks forward to offering many more such patient friendly services in coming months across the nation.
