The Retail Clinic Address Databse from Merchant Medicine is a comprehensive database of US retail clinic locations. Retail clinics (sometimes called convenient care or convenient care clinics) are a new franchise model of health care facility opening in neighborhood pharmacies and other high-traffic retail outlets nationwide. Driven by consumer demand, the accessible and affordable “mini-clinics” are expected to expand rapidly in the coming years to meet the growing need for routine, non-emergency medical care.
Merchant Medicine collects and maintains the high quality database, while Spatial Insights creates added utility for GIS and mapping software users. The data have been precison geocoded, and by leveraging the newly added geographic component of the data, users of the data can easily visualize and analyze the distribution and characteristics of retail clinics in their mapping and GIS applications. The data attributes also include ownership, hours of operation, and contact information for each retail clinic.
Besides location-based applications, other uses of the data include:
