Coverage dated August 23, 2022 to August 24, 2022

Amazon Care To End Just Months After Touting Big Virtual And In-Person Health Services Expansion

Headline from Forbes, on the newest of 2 developments

Amazon Care is shutting down later this year just months after the online retailer said it was expanding in-person healthcare services to more than 20 new cities in 2022.

Forbes's own description from its feed. We collect headlines and these descriptions, not full articles; read the original reporting below.

Developments in this update

2 dated developments, oldest first, newest marked. Each is named by one outlet's own headline; open its reports to see every outlet that covered it.

  1. Amazon Is Shutting Down Its Telehealth Service, Amazon Care

    Headline from NBC Los Angeles ·

  2. Newest

    Amazon Care To End Just Months After Touting Big Virtual And In-Person Health Services Expansion

    Headline from Forbes ·

Reports & sources

15 articles, oldest first.

  1. Engadget

    Amazon is shutting its down telehealth service (opens Engadget)

    Published

    Engadget's feed description

    Amazon plans to discontinue its Care telehealth service by the end of the year, reports The Washington Post..

  2. NBC Chicago

    Amazon Is Shutting Down Its Telehealth Service, Amazon Care (opens NBC Chicago)

    Published

    NBC Chicago's feed description

    Amazon Care launched in 2019 as a pilot program for employees in and around the company’s Seattle headquarters.

  3. Washington Post

    Amazon to shut down its telehealth offering (opens Washington Post)

    Published

    Washington Post's feed description

    Amazon will shutter Amazon Care, the virtual and in-home health service it initially created for its employees, by the end of this year.

  4. Bloomberg

  5. Insider

    Read the internal memo Amazon sent announcing that it's winding down its ambitious Amazon Care medical service at the end of this year (opens Insider)

    Published

    Insider's feed description

    Amazon is shuttering its internal primary-care service just a year and a half after announcing plans to take the venture nationwide.

  6. Geek Wire

    Internal memo: Amazon Care to shut down, ‘not a complete enough offering’ for corporate customers (opens Geek Wire)

    Published

    Geek Wire's feed description

    Amazon will stop offering its Amazon Care primary health-care services at the end of this year, according to an internal memo, after determining that it wasn’t “the right long-term solution…

  7. MyNorthwest

    Amazon to shutter virtual health care service Amazon Care (opens MyNorthwest)

    Published

    MyNorthwest's feed description

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Amazon is shutting down the hybrid virtual, in-home care service it's spent years developing, a surprising move that underscores the

  8. Forbes

    Amazon Care To End Just Months After Touting Big Virtual And In-Person Health Services Expansion (opens Forbes)

    Published

    Forbes's feed description

    Amazon Care is shutting down later this year just months after the online retailer said it was expanding in-person healthcare services to more than 20 new cities in 2022.

  9. CBS News

    Amazon pulling the plug on virtual health care service Amazon Care (opens CBS News)

    Published

    CBS News's feed description

    Online retailer spent years developing the virtual in-home care service. Now it's shutting it down.

  10. FOX Business

    Amazon shutting down its hybrid virtual, in-home care service (opens FOX Business)

    Published

    FOX Business's feed description

    In a surprise move, Amazon is shuttering its hybrid virtual, in-home care service, known as Amazon Care, that it spent years developing. The service will end by Dec. 31.

Identical headlines usually mean shared wire copy. They are counted as separate articles but are not independent confirmation.

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