Talk:Retail clinic

I just revised the final sentences of the section called 'Services Offered' -- it contained inaccurate information that suggested that there are physician-staffed CCCs that provide all of the services that a traditional primary care office provides. CCCs -- regardless of staff -- provide only a limited range of services, and refer all patients who need care that falls outside of this limited range to an ER, a traditional primary care office, or a specialist. If a clinic doesn't fit this description, it's not a CCC (it may be an acute care center, which is different). I included a link to QuickHealth (a physician-staffed CCC in California that offers a limited range of services) that backs this up. --Aritter 17:30, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I just removed (without being logged in -- oops) a sentence inserted in the first paragraph that said that NPs and PAs work "under the supervision of a local physician." I removed this because this isn't an accurate description of the law in most states. In most states, NPs work independently and are required by law to "collaborate" with physicians -- not "be supervised" by them. PAs, however, are required to be supervised by physicians -- and this is noted in the section of the article called "Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants in Convenient Care Clinics". Aritter 14:58, 13 November 2006 (UTC)Aritter

The "Companies in the United States" section is woefully out of date, and essentially useless. For example, while it purports to list "top 10 companies" there is no definition of the metric used to determine "top 10" status (# of clinics? revenues?). We hope to supply a list of the top 10 clinic operators by # of clinics soon, based on counts in our clinics database. Gjudd (talk) 12:43, 30 September 2011 (UTC)