Retail heath

[Pioneer Press, January 24, 2010] There's a chill in the air for the once-hot retail health clinic industry as growth has stalled following a boom. As the retail clinic business has matured over the past two years, operators that once threatened to undermine the delivery of health care in the U.S. increasingly are finding the need to partner with doctors and hospitals that initially bristled at the competition.

For example, MinuteClinic is reaching out to doctors and hospitals, announcing in November a partnership with the Minneapolis-based Allina Hospitals & Clinics. Read the whole story at pioneerpress.com.