The creation of urgent mental health care in retail locations isn’t coming, it’s already underway. Huge players in the retail and health care space have already built a foundation for themselves to make mental health care more accessible. Over the last 20 years or so, urgent care blazed a new retail-like trail for physical health […]
Beacon Care Services
As behavioral health providers know all too well, accessing mental health services such as counseling can be expensive, inconvenient and difficult for patients. Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is making moves to remove those roadblocks to care at its Walmart Health centers, where patients can speak with a counselor for $1 a minute, according to a recent […]
Beacon Health Options has expanded its partnership with Walmart (NYSE: WMT). As part of the agreement, Beacon Care Services — a subsidiary of Beacon Health Options — will provide select behavioral health services through the retail giant’s second Walmart Health center. Boston-based Beacon is a behavioral health provider that dubs itself the country’s largest privately […]