Johns Hopkins Medicine & Walgreens Expand Health Care Collaboration with Opening of New Store, Bringing Health & Wellness Ser...
November 22 2013 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
Officials from Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) and Johns
Hopkins Medicine (JHM) today celebrate the expansion of a unique
collaboration between the two parties, with the grand opening of a
new Walgreens store adjacent to the JHM campus. The store project
is a joint effort to bring new health and wellness programs and
other health care services to the surrounding community, furthering
the partnership between Johns Hopkins and Walgreens to explore the
development of new models for improving overall patient care.
“This store is an ideal environment for our pharmacists and the
Healthcare Clinic nurse practitioners to work with Johns Hopkins
Medicine faculty to further innovate in health care while providing
greater access to services for the community,” said Kermit
Crawford, Walgreens president of pharmacy, health and wellness.
“We’re proud of the great work that’s being done through this
unique collaboration that led to this store’s opening as a model of
our partnership to help students, staff and area residents get,
stay and live well.”
The new Walgreens “Well Experience” store offers health
services, as well as healthy food options and a full selection of
other daily living products. In addition to its pharmacy, the store
brings other health care resources to the community with a new
Healthcare Clinic, staffed by board-certified nurse practitioners,
marking the first Walgreens in-store retail clinic in the state of
Maryland.
The store is located at the Science and Technology Park adjacent
to the Johns Hopkins medical campus at 900 N. Washington St.,
Baltimore.
New services now available include:
- Student health services – clinical,
pharmacy and retail products and services
- Healthcare 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
Other programs and services planned to be offered soon
include:
- Smoking cessation
- HIV testing – part of a Walgreens
program supporting people living with HIV/AIDS, offering accessible
health and wellness guidance and testing programs/services
- Travel immunizations
“These programs will provide a novel approach to population
health and medical services,” said Patricia M.C. Brown, J.D.,
president of Johns Hopkins HealthCare. “They will benefit not only
the surrounding community, but also form the level of health care
collaboration that could serve as a national model.”
“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,” said Jeanne M. Clark, M.D., 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.”
Walgreens to Provide Initial Funding for Brancati Center for
Advancement of Community Care
As an extension of the collaboration with Johns Hopkins,
Walgreens today announced it will provide the initial funding for
the new Brancati Center for the Advancement of Community Care. The
center, part of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
will develop and test new models of collaborative care to improve
the health of communities using the unique skills and perspectives
of a diverse group of clinicians including pharmacists, nurse
practitioners and others.
The center is named in honor of the late Frederick L. Brancati,
M.D., Johns Hopkins’ longtime professor of medicine and
epidemiology and director of the Division of General Internal
Medicine. Brancati was an internationally recognized expert on
epidemiology and the prevention of Type 2 diabetes. Walgreens and
Johns Hopkins will work together toward a goal of raising $10-$15
million in contributions over the next five years.
“Pharmacists and nurse practitioners are playing a critical role
in health care today, and we share the Center’s mission on a local,
national and global scale to further the study and development of
new health care models that allow these clinicians to practice at
the top of their licensure and training while serving as a part of
patients’ care teams,” said Harry Leider, M.D., Walgreens chief
medical officer.
About Walgreens
As the nation's largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2013 sales
of $72 billion, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) vision is to be the
first choice in health and daily living for everyone in America,
and beyond. 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 8,131 drugstores in all 50 states, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Take Care Health
Systems is a Walgreens subsidiary that is the largest and most
comprehensive manager of worksite health and wellness centers,
provider practices, and in-store convenient care clinics, with more
than 750 locations throughout the country.
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