Berkshire Health Systems is closing a walk-in clinic inside a Pittsfield grocery store in favor of a similar center elsewhere in the city.On Friday the walk-in clinic inside Market 32 on Hubbard Avenue will close. BHS says after opening in April 2015 the clinic treated an average of 50 patients a week, with a high of nearly 100 during peak times. BHS media relations director Michael Leary says numbers have declined since September when the company opened an urgent care center about four miles away on East Street.
“We think is very likely due to patients who were seeking much more expansive services that can be found at BHS urgent care because we have x-ray and lab blood drawing there on site which we did not have at the walk-in facility,” said Leary.
BHS is planning to add exam rooms and provide new services at the East Street center, which is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, including weekends and most holidays. Leary says the decision has nothing to do with MedExpress opening an urgent care center less than a mile from Market 32 in June.
