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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Few retail clinics found serving poor

CHICAGO | Walk-in retail clinics in grocery and drugstore chains can help the uninsured find health care, proponents say. But a new study suggests that most retail clinics aren't in the poorest neighborhoods.

"Many people have promoted retail clinics as a cure for access to care for the underserved," said Dr. Ateev Mehrotra of the University of Pittsburgh, who studies retail clinics but wasn't involved in the new research. "These findings show that's unlikely to happen."

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