Amazon’s One Medical primary care practice has announced plans to fill the gap next to Shake Shack at 74 Central St., in Wellesley Square. Temporary signage teases the planned medical offices for this membership-based offering.
This roughly 3,700 sq. ft. space is part of the property that formerly was home to The Gap and that has been renovated by Linear Retail.
One Medical, slated to open in partnership with Mass General Brigham, offers 24/7 online care, plus in-person appointments on a membership and non-membership basis. Amazon Prime customers can include One Medical membership in their subscription for an additional $99 per year.
One Medical has offices across the country, and locally, in Boston, Cambridge, and Newton.
Amazon bought One Medical in 2023 as part of its expansion into health care services.
We reached out to both the property owner and developer for further comment, and will update this post if we get additional info.
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After almost two years since I’ve had an annual primary care visit due to my general practitioner moving to concierge, I welcome a physician or NP that will see me vs. burdening walk-in clinics and emergency rooms for basic care.
Our medical system is very screwed up and you can blame the insurance companies.
Thanks for the information. It is not called MGH any longer it is called MGB Mass General Brigham
Thanks Laurie, fixed…
No doubt, it will change again in 5-10 years!
Generative AI driven healthcare delivery. What could go wrong? According to an article written by Amazon staff dated “October 22,2024 titled Amazon One Medical Launches AI Tools to Help Doctors Get Back to Focusing on Patient Care; “Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize health care delivery, and we’re just at the beginning stages,” said Prakash Bulusu, chief technology officer, Amazon Health Services. Our vision is to harness AI to empower primary care providers and enable them to deliver exceptional, human-centered care by easing the burden of time consuming administrative tasks.” Artificial Intelligence empowers humans to provide human centered care? Really? AI plus human equals more personable human? That’s a hard sell. The article further explains how AI is used to provide:”Seamless care team collaboration: We use AI to assess patient needs and care team skills to route tasks and workflows to the most suitable person, whether an office administrator, doctor, care coordinator, or pharmacist.” We were created in Gods image. Get behind me Satan.