Retail Based Health Clinics Primer for Hospitals and Clinic Operators – How to decide if you should become Retail Clinic Operator – the benefits and challenges

Friday, May 9, 2008

1:00-2:30 pm EDT

New Rochelle, NY – Nationwide hospitals, physician groups, and private companies are eagerly entering the Retail Based Health Clinic business. At present there are over 70 different companies running over 1100 clinics in the US. Some experts predict this number to be cut in half over the next few years due to consolidation, and challenges in maintaining profitability. Yet these same forecasts indicate that an additional 400 hospitals and healthcare systems will enter this business in the next 24 months.

The Retail Based Health Clinics Primer for Hospitals as Clinics Operators – How to decide if you should become Retail Clinic Operator – the benefits and challenges, May 9, 2008, will take an in-depth look at the retail health clinics and help you create a retail clinic strategy for your hospital. During this 90-minute webinar, Mary Kate Scott author of The Hospital Retail Clinic Toolkit will provide an in-depth overview and compelling analysis of current market trends and provide a template on how to make this strategic decision. In addition, Kim Hodgkinson from Aurora Health Care Ventures and Thomas Reinhardt from Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center will share their companies’ experiences developing and managing their own clinics as well as the key strategies every provider must know to ensure success in this marketplace. Formal presentations will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A to answer your most pressing retail based health clinic questions.

Tune into this live 90-minute webinar from the convenience of your office to better understand:

• The care and business model for retail clinics operated by hospitals and healthcare systems
• The top five critical assessments a health care organization must make before deciding when and how to enter the retail clinic space – whether as operator or as a partner
• The trend of the retail health clinic for hospitals as clinic operators, which retailers are seeking hospital as operators and partners and how to approach retailers with a retail clinic opportunity
• Review data on market penetration and demographics of consumers visiting retail clinics by Region, State, Urban versus Rural, Retail Chains
• Explore the physician response versus consumer responses

Mary Kate Scott is the Principal of Scott & Company, a strategy consulting firm for health provider and technology firms, their investors, and leading not-for-profit healthcare organizations. Her recent book, The Hospital Retail Clinic Toolkit, is a practical guide to help hospital executives respond to retail clinics. She works with leaders of hospitals, medical device firms, pharmaceutical companies, retailers and investors to evaluate the opportunity and impact of retail clinics and other growth strategies. Mary Kate is the author of two groundbreaking reports on retail clinics: HealthCare in the Express Lane, and was formerly with McKinsey & Company. She can be reached at MaryKateScott.com.

Tom Reinhardt is the Chief Planning & Business Development Officer for Saint Alphonsus Physician Services, Inc. - the medical group management subsidiary of Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. Saint Alphonsus Medical Group employs approximately 100 providers in 19 clinics across Southwest Idaho. Prior to joining Saint Alphonsus, Tom's 20 year journey in the business of health care includes market intelligence and operations for Blue Cross Blue Shield plans, telehealth for Centura Health system, business development for Healthwise, and consulting. His personal mission is to improve health care access and effectiveness for everyone.