Gallery: Walmart's First-Ever Health Center

Walmart recently unveiled a remodeled supercenter in Dallas, GA, complete with its first-ever Walmart Health center devoted to offering health and wellness services conveniently and at much cheaper price points than rivals.Below are some of the unique elements we noticed at the location:While connected to the supercenter, the adjacent Walmart Health center commands its own dedicated site and also has a separate entrance for patients. Offered services are listed on big signs outside the doors: primary care, optical, dental, hearing, counseling, nutritional, lab and X-ray. Patients can also get EKGs as well as insurance education and enrollment, all through partnerships with local providers. Technology streamlines the process, letting patients schedule, check-in, make payments, get an estimate on the cost of services and complete other activities without paperwork. The Walmart Health center takes up 10,000 square feet inside the supercenter, a step up from the 1,500-square-foot in-store Care Clinics Walmart incorporated into existing stores in Texas, South Carolina and Georgia. The Care Clinics also don’t offer services such as vision and hearing tests or counseling. The expanded scope of services at the Walmart Health pilot vaults Walmart into the realm of becoming a full primary medical provider as it aims to get more embedded in the healthcare industry. The retailer already has plans for a second Walmart Health center in Calhoun, GA.The move is also part of the retailer’s strategy to offer services and products together in one place, with consumers able to go from the health center’s doctor or optometrist right to filling prescriptions or browsing for frames. The supercenter’s updated vision and pharmacy concepts boast a new look with technology again reducing friction and wait time in the pharmacy, and a new layout incorporating multiple service areas in the vision center.The remodeled supercenter also includes an adjacent Essentials PetCare walk-in veterinary clinic. Walmart heavily promotes its presence in the store, touting the “now open” clinic’s available services and hours of operation while sending consumers online to essentialspetcare.com to check in. Vaccinations, exams, minor illness care, microchipping and lab work are among the offered services. Walmart is also using the opportunity to direct clinic clients to its in-store pharmacy, which is now stocked with the top 30 most requested pet meds. Over the next 12 months, 100 Walmart stores will open pet clinics run by either Essentials PetCare or another vendor, VetIQ.Among other updates at the supercenter, the electronics and baby departments were upgraded to reflect the retailer’s latest redesign incorporating interactive table displays in the former and merchandising strollers out-of-the-box on the floor level for easy trial and comparison in the latter.The location also boasts new display concepts such as illuminated gondolas in the beauty department stocking products including nail polish and hair styling tools.Of course, the remodeled supercenter also boasts the Pickup Tower Walmart has been rapidly adding across its locations.View more images from the remodeled supercenter here.

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