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For more than a year we’ve been heading up to Bethesda’s MinuteClinic when we needed to see a health professional fast. Now that the CVS location at 7th & H is being rebuilt, we wondered this could also house the District’s first MinuteClinic.
In our experience downtown DC has plenty of doctors, but getting same day appointments can often be difficult. Walk in clinics help alleviate this problem, but we’re not sure where to turn besides the emergency room. That’s where a service like MinuteClinic can be so important.
So far no comment from our calls to the MinuteClinic headquarters, but we hope they’ll consider downtown DC as the place for this service.
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DC gov’t. makes it very hard to open these types of clinics. I called the MVS Safeway to ask if they were administering walk-in flu shots, since they advertise that on tv and on the website. They said that they cannot because of DC’s wacky laws, but that I could go to any MD or VA Safeway for the shot. They said that they were continuously lobbying DC and Congress to change the DC laws in this area, but that no changes were pending.
In a nutshell, it is not illegal to offer these services, so MD and VA see the services as legal and offer them. Under DC law, even if it is not specifically illegal, there needs to be a formal declaration (via the Council or the Courts) that it is legal in order for it to be considered legal. Typical…
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MinuteClinic has plans to open in DC but the DC Board of Nursing and DC Govt are holding back.