America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers

There were about 2,000 retail health clinics (RHCs) in the United States between 2018 and 2020 that provided convenient health services inside pharmacies, grocery stores and supercenter retailers but most were in metropolitan areas, according to a new database created by the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).

Most (950) of these RHCs were in the South region and among divisions, the South Atlantic had the largest number (550).

The Linked Retail Health Clinics (LiRHC) database ? part of the Census Bureau?s EHealth Program ? is the first step in a multi-phase collaboration to identify RHC locations.

Future phases will examine populations living near retail health clinics, other health care providers located near these clinics, and the business characteristics of retailers that have RHCs.

Continue reading?to learn more about:

• The research
• New NCHS and Census Bureau collaboration

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