Rite Aid partners with MultiCare Health to staff Seattle-area RediClinics

CAMP HILL, Pa. — Rite Aid announced Wednesday that its RediClinic arm and MultiCare Health System, a not-for-profit health care organization operating across the Puget Sound region, have formed a joint venture to expand access to healthcare services in the greater Seattle area. Through the joint venture, RediClinic and MultiCare will collaborate to operate 11 RediClinics inside select Rite Aid pharmacies. 

 

“Rite Aid is excited to announce this joint venture, a strategic expansion of our existing relationship with MultiCare Health System,” stated Robert Thompson, EVP pharmacy at Rite Aid. “MultiCare shares Rite Aid and RediClinic’s commitment to providing high-quality, convenient and affordable health care to the communities it serves, and we look forward to collaborating with MultiCare to offer an additional level of care to our customers across Seattle.”

 

The RediClinics in Seattle will be staffed by board certified MultiCare nurse practitioners. Patients visiting the clinics can be treated for more than 30 common medical conditions. 

 

Thompson was joined by RediClinic CEO Web Golinkin and MultiCare Health System president and CEO Bill Robertson for a ribbon-cutting Wednesday morning in Bellevue, Wash. 

 

MultiCare currently operates a convenient care clinic inside a Lakewood, Wash., Rite Aid.