Boom Industry: There Are Now 1,300 Retail Clinics

During the month of August, 40 new retail health clinics opened including 25 new Minute Clinics in CVS stores (bringing the total to 520, the most of any national chain), 6 new Clinics at Walmart (137 total), and 4 new Target clinics (44 total).  After accounting for 5 closings in August, the net increase of 35 new retail clinics last month brought the national total up to 1,300, an all-time record high, according to retail clinic trade association Merchant Medicine.  Compared to August of 2010, the number of retail clinics nationwide has increased by 110, representing a 9.2% increase from a year earlier.