{"id":2986,"date":"2016-05-25T08:08:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2016-05-25T08:08:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T12:08:08","slug":"cvs-minuteclinics-a-cure-for-long-wait-times-at-veterans-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2986","title":{"rendered":"CVS MinuteClinics: A Cure For Long Wait Times At Veterans Affairs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Barbara Feder Ostrov for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Struggling with long wait times, the Veterans Affairs Health Care System is trying something new: a partnership with the CVS Pharmacy chain <a href=\"http:\/\/cvshealth.com\/newsroom\/press-releases\/minuteclinic-announces-first-its-kind-initiative-veterans-affairs-palo-alto\" target=\"_blank\">to offer urgent care<\/a>\u00a0services to more than 65,000 veterans.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment begins today at the VA\u2019s operations in Palo Alto, California.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans can visit 14 \u201cMinuteClinics\u201d operated by CVS in the San Francisco Bay area and Sacramento, where staff will treat them for conditions such as respiratory infections, order lab tests and prescribe medications, which can be filled at CVS pharmacies. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/cvs-minuteclinics-a-cure-for-long-wait-times-at-veterans-affairs\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=29927204&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--i5a9vIDLCvOEhaIj2Ak6-5Z8hhDgNVu9rm4GY3qBHA93kagnjFgau7vImFXwdKT2_xTst968TJTi7VSTGZ9HKk6m3xQ&amp;_hsmi=29927204\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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