Wuesthoff Health System Opens Its First Retail Clinic at Walmart in Merritt Island, Florida

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News On December 17, 2009, Wuesthoff Health System (WHS) opened the first of its five planned facilities to be known as “The Clinic at Walmart” in the Walmart store in Merritt Island, Florida. There consumers can receive preventive and basic health care services seven days per week from licensed health care professionals—nurse practitioners and medical assistants—to treat non-urgent conditions such as minor injuries, sore throats, sinus infections, upper respiratory infections, ear aches, and bladder infections. Patients needing urgent or specialist care will be referred elsewhere. In 2010 and 2011 . . .