Amazon is launching 20 healthcare clinics in 5 US cities for warehouse workers and their families (AMZN)

The first will roll out in Dallas-Fort Worth and then in Phoenix, Louisville, Detroit, and California's San Bernardino-Moreno Valley area.
It's unclear when the clinics will open or if they will offer COVID-19 testing. Amazon did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
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Amazon is rolling out 20 healthcare clinics for the company's warehouse workers and their families in five US cities, according to a blog post published Tuesday.

As CNBC reports, the clinics' services will include preventive primary care, prescription medications, and vaccinations. They will be operated by Crossover Health, a startup that has run onsite clinics for the likes of Apple, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

The company announced that the pilot program will launch its first clinic in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, where more than 20,000 Amazon employees reside. Of those, 11,000 are operation employees, according to the company. The rest of the pilot clinics will be established in Phoenix, Louisville, Detroit, and California's San Bernardino-Moreno Valley area.

If the clinics which will be situated close to fulfillment centers and operations facilities are successful, the company will look into a wider rollout in 2021.

It is unclear when exactly these first clinics will open or if they will offer COVID-19 testing for workers and their families. Amazon did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

The new program comes after the ecommerce giant last October launched a pilot program called Amazon Care , which included video and text visits with clinicians, as well as in-home care, for employees in Seattle.

Employees have called Amazon's warehouses a "breeding ground" for the coronavirus disease as social distancing proves difficult in such environments, according to a Business Insider report in April. The employees also said that Amazon was not doing enough to help prevent COVID-19 from infecting them and the communities they serve.

In early June, CNBC reported the company was aiming to test the majority of its warehouse workers for the disease every other week. Amazon has said it expects to spend $1 billion in employee testing in 2020.

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Amazon is launching 20 healthcare clinics in 5 US cities for warehouse workers and their families (AMZN)

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