Mercy Health – Cincinnati and Walgreens partner on coordinated and expanded healthcare services

CINCINNATI — Mercy Health – Cincinnati and Walgreens on Monday announced that they have agreed to provide coordinated and expanded healthcare services. Mercy Health - Cincinnati will work with Healthcare Clinic at select Walgreens to provide care options for patients with serious conditions outside of the clinics’ scope of services and to help manage the treatment of chronic diseases. The collaboration will provide Mercy Health - Cincinnati patients and residents with expanded access to quality care seven days a week.

 

The collaboration also will include direct communication between Mercy Health physicians and Healthcare Clinic nurse practitioners to coordinate patient care and share patient information. 

 

“Our agreement with Walgreens extends quality care directly into our communities to provide greater access for patients, which is absolutely in line with our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve,” said Dan Roth, Mercy Health – Cincinnati chief medical officer and president, Mercy Health Physicians. “We believe our communities will benefit from this type of collaborative model as we join forces with Walgreens to deliver coordinated care.”

 

“With the healthcare system today facing myriad of challenges, Healthcare Clinic at select Walgreens can play an important role in enhancing patient access to quality, convenient and affordable care,” added Alan London, Walgreens VP strategic clinical partnerships. “Working with a highly integrated health system such as Mercy Health - Cincinnati offers an ideal opportunity to further coordinate patient care in the greater Cincinnati region.”

 

The clinics will support Mercy Health – Cincinnati’s network of care, which includes five hospitals, five medical centers, two urgent care locations and over 350 physicians and advanced practitioners located throughout Greater Cincinnati.