Take Care Health Systems and Walgreens to Add Nine New ”Health Corner Clinics” in Chicago
Take Care Health Systems and Walgreen Co. (NYSE, NASDAQ: WAG) opened four of nine additional Health Corner Clinics inside Chicago-area Walgreens, as they launched the second stage of a multi-phase expansion plan, the companies announced today. A total of 17 Health Corner Clinics will be open by early spring.
Staffed by highly-qualified nurse practitioners, the health care clinics are open Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. No appointments are necessary.
“Residents throughout the Chicago area have embraced this new and convenient health care service since Take Care Health opened its first eight centers last November,” said Lynn Scarbrough, Take Care Health’s Regional Nurse Practitioner. “As a result, we’re adding nine new clinics by early spring and additional clinics over the summer, giving Chicago-area residents greater access to high-quality and affordable health care.”
Take Care Nurse Practitioners treat patients 18 months and older for common illnesses such as strep throat, ear, sinus and bladder infections, pink eye and poison ivy. Nurse practitioners also provide diagnostic screenings and administer certain vaccinations.
New Health Corner Clinics are open today inside these Walgreens drugstores:
Joliet – 1801 Ingalls Ave.
Romeoville – 498 N. Weber Road
Plainfield – 4822 Caton Farm Road
Yorkville – 100 W. Veterans Pkwy. (Rt 34)
Health Corner Clinics are currently open inside these Walgreens stores:
Elk Grove Village — 930 Elk Grove Town Center
St. Charles — 3351 W. Main St.
Morton Grove — 9301 Waukegan Road
Plainfield — 24801 W. 135th St.
Libertyville – 1770 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Naperville – 3035 Book Road
Montgomery – 1799 Douglas Road
Mount Prospect – 1701 E Kensington Road
Health Corner Clinics will open by early spring inside these Walgreens stores:
Arlington Heights – 3 E. Golf Road
Northfield – 1825 Willow Road
Aurora – 1207 N. Randall Road
River Forest – 7251 W. Lake Street
Lake Zurich – 910 N. Rand Road
Take Care Health accepts most commercial insurance plans as well as most Medicare and Medicaid plans — 69 percent of insured patients can visit a clinic and just pay their standard co-payment. For the uninsured and cash payers, costs average $59 to $74.
Insurance plans covering a visit to an area Health Corner Clinic include:
BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois — PPO and traditional
Great-West Healthcare
Humana — PPO and Classic
Humana Medicare — Gold PFFS and HumanaChoice PPO
Group Health Plan (Coventry)
PersonalCare (Coventry)
Medicare
GHP Medicare — Advantra and Gold Advantage
United Healthcare — Medicare Complete
United Healthcare — All commercial products
First Health/CCN
AllKids
Take Care Health is committed to working in cooperation with the greater health care community toward a shared goal of providing patient-focused, quality health care in the Chicago-area. Advocate Health Partners partnered with Take Care Health last year to ensure excellent patient care.
Take Care Nurse Practitioners encourage all patients to have a medical home and a primary care provider, and refer patients back to their provider should they need follow-up care. If a patient doesn’t have such a provider, nurse practitioners will provide a list of those in the area accepting new patients. Take Care Health’s Electronic Medical Record technology allows patients to easily take a record of their visit to their provider, ensuring continuity of care.
To date, Take Care Health operates 40 clinics in Chicago, Kansas City, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. Take Care Health plans to open more than 200 centers in 2007 and over 1,000 centers in U.S. cities by 2009.
About Take Care Health Systems
Take Care Health Systems (www.takecarehealth.com) is a leading independent operator of convenient care clinics. Take Care Health’s vision is to combine best practices in medicine and the expertise and personal care of Take Care Nurse Practitioners to provide high-quality, accessible and affordable health care to all Americans. Take Care Health has a 98 percent patient satisfaction rating at its 40 health care centers and has treated over 60,000 patients since November, 2005. Take Care Health is a founding member of the Convenient Care Association (www.convenientcareassociation.org).
About Walgreens
Walgreen Co. is the nation’s largest drug store chain with fiscal 2006 sales of $47.4 billion. The company operates 5,611 stores in 48 states and Puerto Rico, including 76 Happy Harry’s stores in Delaware and surrounding states. Walgreens also provides additional services to pharmacy patients and prescription drug and medical plans through Walgreens Health Services, its managed care division, which includes Walgreens Health Initiatives, Inc. (a pharmacy benefits manager), Walgreens Mail Service Inc., Walgreens Home Care Inc., and Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy.