Walgreens and Novant Health have announced a retail health clinical collaboration and services agreement. Novant Health, which has 15 medical centers and 640 locations throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, will open new retail health clinics at Walgreens stores in Winston-Salem, Charlotte, and Brunswick Counties in North Carolina. The clinics, staffed with physician assistants and nurse practitioners, will be branded as “Novant Health Express at Walgreens.” The first clinics are expected to open in the first half of 2020. Under the agreement, Walgreens will acquire nine Novant Health retail pharmacies.