Amazon Care Ceremony to Shutter As Company Shifts Health Care Approach
Amazon is closing down its homegrown health care provider at the end of 2022, the commerce told employees Wednesday. Amazon Care offered telehealth appointments and home nurse visits as a workplace back to people around the US.
The announcement comes as Amazon is poised to get more fervent in health care, not less. In July, the commerce announced a deal to purchase One Medical, a primary care provider with brick-and-mortar clinics as well as telehealth offerings. The company also runs Amazon Pharmacy, which it reached after acquiring PillPack in 2018.
Neil Lindsay, Amazon’s senior vice high-level of health services, told employees in an email that Amazon Care wasn’t progressing to succeed as a business, according to a copy of the email community by Amazon.
“Although our enrolled members have loved many aspects of Amazon Care, it is not a unfastened enough offering for the large enterprise customers we have been targeting,” Lindsay said, adding it “wasn’t progressing to work long-term.”
Amazon Care started in 2019 as a back for the company’s workers and relied on a third-party commerce to dispatch health care workers to peoples’ homes and phones. Amazon then packaged it as a service other affairs could offer their employees.
