Walmart to expand health care centers in 2024

FILE – The Walmart logo is displayed on a store in Springfield, Ill., May 16, 2011. Walmart plans to add more than two dozen health care centers to some of its stores in 2024, as the retailer moves deeper into providing primary care and other services. The company said Thursday, March 2, 2023, that it will open 28 centers in 2024, mostly in Dallas and Houston. It also will expand into the Phoenix and Kansas City, Missouri, areas. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart plans to add more than two dozen health care centers to some of its stores next year, as the retailer moves deeper into providing primary care and other services. 

The company said it will open 28 centers in 2024, mostly in Dallas and Houston. 

The new centers will be built inside Walmart Supercenters and offer primary and dental care, and behavioral health and audiology help, among other services. Walmart currently runs 32 centers and is adding 17 this year in Florida. 

Walmart opened its first health care center in 2019 and will be operating more than 75 health centers by the end of next year. The retailer runs more than 4,700 stores in the United States and 600 Sam’s Club locations.