To be checked out by a wellness-geek (with no degree) and pushing vitamins or band-aides?
CVS Clinics are staffed by nurse practitioners stationed by the pharmacy. Nothing close to a hospital or even urgent care facility.
No. To be seen by Nurse Practitioners, just like they (we) may very well see at the VA.
I am not a fan of the CVS Minute Clinic, they provide too basic a service. I would like it more if they contracted with free standing urgent care clinics, which are more robust. By robust I mean the can do X-Rays and basic labs.
Oh, this will go well; the only thing CVS is good for, is the half-price chocolate after a holiday.
Kroger’s Little Clinic has a actual PA you see with the authority to write certain scripts.
BUT keep in mind that VA CAP for care still applies. IF you are not on VA CARE now because of Income requirement, then you pay for that visit or your ins does.
Medicare/Tricare Life will cover such a visit.
Minuteclinics and their knockoffs are great. They take a lot of pressure off the emergency rooms. If you’ve got something non-life threatening and easily treated with a scrip you can be in and out of of one of those in under an hour. Much better than being in the emergency room forever as you keep getting bumped for people that might actually die, and you’re not clogging up emergency with a non-emergency. Everybody wins.
I’m pretty sure the clinics are staffed with a minimum of a Certified Nurse Practician.
Actually most likely a nurse practitioner with a Master degree level training. Not unlike what many people get when they go to the doctor for minor complaints. My recent yearly cardiology appointment was with the NP.