Discount retailer Dollar General is expanding into healthcare services in what could be a competitive shot across the bow for drugstores, Fierce Healthcare reports. The company is piloting mobile health clinics at three stores in Tennessee to provide customers with basic, preventive and urgent care services along with lab testing. Dollar General teamed up with DocGo, a provider of mobile health and transportation services, to provide the medical services, which are set up in large vans in store parking lots. The two companies plan to evaluate customer response and determine the feasibility of expanding the mobile health clinic offering to additional stores. Read more.
Dollar General Pilots Mobile Clinics as It Targets a Bigger Presence in Healthcare
