A new Walgreens store is being developed adjacent to the Johns
Hopkins East Baltimore medical campus, which will offer new health
and wellness programs and services for students and staff, as well
as residents of the surrounding community. The store marks a
significant expansion of a unique collaboration between Johns
Hopkins Medicine (JHM) and Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG)
first announced in May 2011, to collaborate and explore the
development of new models for improving overall patient care.
The new Walgreens “Well Experience” store will offer health
services, as well as healthy food options and a full selection of
other daily living products. In addition to its pharmacy, the store
will bring other health care resources to the community with a new
Take Care Clinic, staffed by board-certified nurse practitioners,
marking the first Walgreens in-store retail clinic in the state of
Maryland.
The store will be located at Science and Technology Park
adjacent to the Johns Hopkins medical campus. The park is being
developed by Forest City - New East Baltimore Partnership.
Construction is expected to begin in July with the planned opening
in late November.
“This is a significant next step in our relationship, leveraging
the clinical expertise of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Walgreens
expansive health care resources to create a retail hub for
community-based care,” said Kermit Crawford, Walgreens president of
pharmacy, health and wellness. “Our pharmacy and Take Care Clinic
will provide an environment for collaborative health care
innovation, while also providing greater access to health care
services for the Johns Hopkins community, students, employees and
patients. This new venture is another way in which we’re advancing
community pharmacy to help more people get, stay and live
well.”
With an emphasis on population health and wellness, the
Walgreens store plans to introduce a number of programs in
collaboration with Johns Hopkins Medicine faculty, including:
- Student health services – clinical,
pharmacy and retail products and services
- Take Care Clinic – with extended
evening and weekend hours, providing assessment, treatment and
management of certain chronic conditions, as well as care for minor
illness and injuries, immunizations, preventive health
screenings/counseling and more
- Chronic disease education and awareness
programs
- Smoking cessation programs
- HIV testing – part of a Walgreens
program supporting people living with HIV/AIDS, offering accessible
health and wellness guidance and testing programs/services
- Immunizations, including those for
travel
Patricia M.C. Brown, JD, president of Johns Hopkins HealthCare,
says, “These programs will provide a novel approach to population
health and medical services. They will benefit not only Johns
Hopkins employees and the surrounding community, but also form the
level of health care collaboration that could serve as a national
model.”
The Walgreens “Well Experience” retail concept supports the
company’s efforts to transform the role of community pharmacy and
re-engineer health care delivery in the U.S., while also providing
a more personalized health care experience. With pharmacists out
from behind the counter and positioned in front of the pharmacy,
they are more accessible to customers and patients to provide
one-on-one consultations, address medication questions and concerns
and more.
According to Paul Rothman, MD, dean of the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine,
“Our collaboration with Walgreens creates the opportunity to offer
innovative, locally-based health care services while further
weaving Johns Hopkins Medicine into the fabric of East Baltimore.
We will also use the lessons learned from this collaboration beyond
our community, as Johns Hopkins Medicine continues to set the
standard for medical education, research and patient care on a
national scale and around the world.”
Johns Hopkins physicians will collaborate with nurse
practitioners at the Take Care Clinic, and will be available during
clinic hours for consultation. Johns Hopkins also has a
collaborative practice agreement at a Take Care Clinic in
Washington, D.C.
“We have been working with Walgreens for more than a year to
develop collaborative approaches to population-based research which
utilize the strengths of both organizations to improve health
outcomes for patients,” says Jeanne M. Clark, MD, interim director
of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine. “The opening of the new Walgreens
store increases our potential to advance population health in the
community and across the country and is a mechanism to expand our
relationship with Walgreens.”
Take Care Clinics are open seven days a week, with extended
evening and weekend hours, and offer walk-in availability as well
as same-day online appointment scheduling. The clinics are located
in 20 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. are staffed by
board-certified nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
“We’re proud to expand our relationship with Johns Hopkins to
coordinate care at our first Take Care Clinic in Maryland,” said
Alan E. London, M.D., chief medical officer, Take Care Clinics.
“Through clinical collaborations, we’re able to facilitate more
coordinated health care services, which are key to improving
patient care and access.”
About Walgreens
As the nation's largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2012 sales
of $72 billion, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) vision is to become
America’s first choice for health and daily living. Each day,
Walgreens provides more than 6 million customers the most
convenient, multichannel access to consumer goods and services and
trusted, cost-effective pharmacy, health and wellness services and
advice in communities across America. Walgreens scope of pharmacy
services includes retail, specialty, infusion, medical facility and
mail service, along with respiratory services. These services
improve health outcomes and lower costs for payers including
employers, managed care organizations, health systems, pharmacy
benefit managers and the public sector. The company operates 8,096
drugstores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto
Rico. Take Care Health Systems is a Walgreens subsidiary that is
the largest and most comprehensive manager of worksite health and
wellness centers and in-store convenient care clinics, with more
than 700 locations throughout the country.
About Johns Hopkins Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM), headquartered in Baltimore,
Maryland, is a $6.7 billion integrated global health enterprise and
one of the leading health care systems in the United States. JHM
unites physicians and scientists of the Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine with the organizations, health professionals and
facilities of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System. JHM's
mission is to improve the health of the community and the world by
setting the standard of excellence in medical education, research
and clinical care. Diverse and inclusive, JHM educates medical
students, scientists, health care professionals and the public;
conducts biomedical research; and provides patient-centered
medicine to prevent, diagnose and treat human illness. JHM operates
six academic and community hospitals, four suburban health care and
surgery centers, more than 38 primary health care outpatient sites
and other businesses that care for national and international
patients and activities. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, opened in
1889, was ranked number one in the nation for 21 years by U.S. News
& World Report.
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