Walmart to Shut All Health Clinics in US Over Lack of Profitability

Walmart to Shut All Health Clinics in US Over Lack of Profitability
Shopping trolley in front of Walmart logo in an illustration on July 24, 2022. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
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Walmart said on Tuesday it will close all 51 of its health clinics and shut its virtual health care operations, saying it could not see it as a sustainable business model to continue.

“Healthcare is expensive to run. We were finding that the increased labor and operating costs environment, like with reimbursement, both public and private, made it difficult [to run the business] and obvious we had to close,” Walmart spokeswoman Marilee McInnis told Reuters.