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March 6, 2008

CVS Caremark applies to open MinuteClinics in Mass.

Woonsocket-based CVS Caremark Corp. has applied for licenses to open the first 10 MinuteClinics at retail sites in Massachusetts. The state recently adopted regulations to allow the medical clinics in retail locations.

MinuteClinic, which runs 500 clinics nationwide, said it plans to open 30 sites in Massachusetts by the end of the year. The first ten would be located in Ashland, Beverly, Bridgewater, Danvers, Medford, Medway, Stoughton, Taunton, Tewksbury and Westford.

The for-profit clinics are staffed by nurse practitioners and physician assistants trained to give customers quick and inexpensive care for common illnesses.

CVS wants to open the medical clinics in its stores in Rhode Island, but during previous hearings before state regulators, the proposal has encountered stiff opposition from primary care doctors, who say visits with doctors provide more complete health care and that the clinics would strip away routine patient visits and leave them with only more chronic cases.

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