Sam’s Club Offers Preventive Healthcare Program

Modern Medicine (3/15, Gebhart) reported, “Sam’s Club has initiated what may be the country’s largest retail preventive healthcare program targeting consumers and small businesses.” Sam’s Club will offer “free monthly in-store health-screening programs that include an individual pharmacy consultation, blood-pressure checks, bone-density scans, BMI assessment, cholesterol and blood-glucose testing, hearing exams, and eye exams.” Each participant “receives a personalized health-risk evaluation, specific recommendations and action plans to reduce health risks, health-education resources, and personal coaching sessions by telephone or web-based chat.”