Rochester Hills residents can now access convenient and affordable care with the new McLaren CareNow clinic, an on-demand health care service delivered in a convenient location, inside the Walgreens on Walton Boulevard. Services ranging from urgent care, lab testing, and prioritized pharmacy services, McLaren registered nurses and nurse practitioners provide patients with the right care.
McLaren CareNow is a unique care model and truly a one-stop clinic in which patients can receive treatment, lab testing and prescriptions on demand from registered nurses working at the top of their license with a virtually located nurse practitioner through state-of-the-art tele-diagnostic equipment.
“Our health is paramount, more so now than perhaps ever before, and we see it as a responsibility to increase our community’s access to care,” said Margaret Dimond, PhD., president and CEO of McLaren Oakland. “The convenience of these clinics and their referral paths to follow up and specialist care are exceptional, meeting a need in the community and making them both advantageous and beneficial to the public.”
McLaren CareNow clinics provide fast, high-quality and cost-effective care for minor illnesses, injuries, wellness physicals, health screenings, vaccinations and a wide variety of lab tests — many that you can receive results for immediately — including a PCR COVID/Flu test with results in as little as 20 minutes. Offering care for cough, colds, sore throats, ear infections, pink eye, sinus infections, sprains, and more, a basic visit costs $75, and insurance is accepted.
“Our patients are met and treated by service-oriented McLaren registered nurses working at the top of their license with a virtually located nurse practitioner through state-of-the-art tele-diagnostic equipment,” said Deborah Conlon, MSN, FNP-BC, vice president of retail clinic operations at McLaren Health Management Group. “Partnering with the exceptional customer service of the Walgreens staff, we are proud to offer a care service with extremely skilled care providers who are focused on efficient care and high-quality, compassionate customer service.”
While located inside the Walgreens store, the health care providers at the McLaren CareNow clinic are solely employed by McLaren Health Management Group.
The Rochester Hills clinic is the second McLaren CareNow location in Oakland County and the seventh of 11 planned McLaren CareNow locations across Michigan slated to open by the end of 2021.
McLaren CareNow at Walgreens is located at 1280 Walton Blvd., at Livernois, in Rochester Hills. Patients can walk in or schedule an appointment in advance at mclaren.org/carenow.
Learn more about the services offered at McLaren Oakland at mclaren.org/oakland.
About McLaren Oakland
McLaren Oakland is a 328-bed medical center that provides primary and specialty healthcare services to the greater Pontiac and Oakland County community. Founded in 1953, McLaren Oakland has grown to a comprehensive medical community that includes outpatient facilities in Clarkston and Oxford, in addition to an inpatient hospital in Pontiac providing a range of clinical services including emergency and trauma care, cardiology, cancer services, minimally invasive robotic surgery and orthopedic services. With a network of more than 300 physicians, McLaren Oakland owns a network of employed physician offices throughout Oakland County and a nursing home in Lake Orion. McLaren Oakland is a Level II verified trauma center and an accredited stroke center. McLaren Oakland offers AOA approved residency and fellowship programs in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family practice, general surgery, internal medicine, dermatology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, podiatry, radiology, and otolaryngology and facial plastic surgery.
About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a fully integrated health network committed to quality evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 13 hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, an employed primary care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 630,000 lives, home health and hospice providers, retail medical equipment showrooms, pharmacy services and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, one of only 49 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive centers in the U.S. McLaren has 26,000 employees and more than 52,500 network providers. Its operations are housed in more than 350 facilities serving the entire Lower Peninsula of the state of Michigan along with a portion of the Upper Peninsula.