JOHNSTON – Quest Diagnostics and CVS Health Corp. have partnered to open a patient- services center inside the retailer’s location on Putnam Pike.
The new Quest lab testing center, which opened on July 11, is the first one inside a CVS store in Rhode Island and second in the nation. The first lab that opened inside a CVS was in Waycross, Ga., and a third location is planned for a CVS in New Hampshire.
Quest currently has three other patient service centers in Rhode Island: Cumberland, Pawtucket and Warwick, and 2,000 such locations across the nation, said Quest spokesperson
Wendy H. Bost.
The in-store facility “offers convenient, comfortable access to comprehensive laboratory testing services,” CVS said in a press releasee. Both companies hope patients and doctors in the surrounding communities will benefit from this new partnership.
“It will be convenient and accessible, and close to home,” Quest Diagnostics Senior Director for Patient Services Jeremy Stein told WJAR-TV NBC 10 at the facility's ribbon cutting on July 25.
The Johnston lab is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Appointments can be made and options are available for walk-in service.