A New Player Enters The Arena: Dollar General Launches Health Clinics
As the world embraces recession headwinds, companies globally are exploring new avenues to create value for customers, increase revenue, and monetize their services. Healthcare, in particular, is at an enigmatic intersection; costs are skyrocketing, margins are thin, labor shortages are plenty, and demand for better care delivery and outcomes has never been higher.
With these factors in mind, organizations are shifting their approach regarding healthcare delivery, and triaging which problem to solve first. However, the industry undoubtedly recognizes that there is a very real demand for high quality healthcare services that is here to stay.
This is where Dollar General apparently sees a promising opportunity. The historically retail focused company announced last week that it will be partnering with DocGo, a leading mobile medical services provide, to enable basic healthcare services. DocGo, a relatively new service, prides itself on a variety of factors including trained providers, a robust transportation and logistics network, and an advanced data and AI platform. It also touts its ability to go the “last mile,” deploying providers to enable care on-site that would otherwise require a patient to go to a physical clinic.
Dollar General is moving forward with this partnership as a part of its “Wellbeing” initiative, explaining that this new platform will enable “quick, easy health visits…right outside the store.” Services include preventative care such as physicals and routine checkups, and even chronic condition management, such as management of diabetes, asthma, and high blood pressure.
