Advocate Health Care will close all 47 Illinois clinics inside Walgrens on February 6, including at least 11 locations in Chicago.
The lawyer, the largest health system in Illinois, announced the closure on Wednesday.
He said in an e -mail statement: “This allows us to focus on additional ways. Patients prefer access to care, when and where they need them, including expanded virtual services that provide care within the comfort of their home, in addition to comfortable access to urgent care and primary care sites In society.
In Illinois, one or two medical office assistants work at Walgrens clinics in Advocate, along with doctors who provide virtual care. The lawyer said he was cooperating with Walgrens to find alternative roles in the organization for the affected employees.
The closure of Chicago clinics includes:
79 W. Monroe St. At loop151 n. State St. N. Ridge ave. In Edgewateer5600 W. Fullerton Ave. At Belmont-Cragin11 E. Street 75 in Chatham7510 N. Western Ave. In West Ridge1633 W.
Walgreens announced earlier this month that it will close five stores in Chicago in February on the southern and west, including one at 3405 S. King Drive. This bronzeville site has been working for decades.
“We are closely cooperating with the lawyer to move on this transition. Walgreens now offers comfortable visits and reasonable prices on the Internet in Illinois,” said Walgrens now.
In October, the Derfield pharmacy series said that it will close 1,200 sites throughout the country by 2027. It will give priority to the weak stores.
The lawyer said in his statement that the closure of Walgrens clinics has a part of a broader shift in operations.
This includes the recently announced investments on the southern side, “where we open neighborhood care sites in comfortable and familiar places, such as churches and community centers.”
It also works to expand the outpatient clinic in the Imani Village in Cottage Grove Heights, at 901 E. 95, and will add more doctors and services to the site.
In December, Advocate unveiled plans to build a hospital at the Old Us Steel South Works site and add more clinics in Chicago, and invested a total of one billion dollars.
It spends $ 300 million at the new 52 -bed hospital, which will sit on an area of ​​23 acres on the former South Works site, which will become a quantum computers in millions of dollars.
Advocate $ 700 million pledged to expand primary care and external patients. It will open 10 neighborhood care sites in places such as churches and community centers. The first one to open in the south of the YMCA in Woodlawn in early this year. Advocate expects three sites annually to open over the next few years.
