NEW YORK — Amazon is shutting down the hybrid virtual, athome care service it’s invested years establishing, a unexpected relocation that highlights the difficulties it dealswith as it moves into health care.
The service, called Amazon Care, will end by Dec. 31, according to an e-mail sentout to personnel by Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services.
Amazon Care was released in 2019 for Seattle-based Amazon’s Washington state workers, who served as trial users priorto the business made it readilyavailable last year to its employees in all 50 states.
The service links clients practically with physicians and nurses who can supply treatment 24 hours a day. It does not have physical areas, however provides in-person services for things like vaccinations and influenza screening in anumberof cities, consistingof Seattle and Washington, D.C.
Amazon’s choice to pull the plug on Amazon Care is even more unexpected provided the business stated in February it was preparation to broaden the in-person care service to consistof 20 extra cities. Last summertime, Amazon likewise started offering the service to personal companies acrossthecountry.
In the e-mail sentout to personnel, Lindsay composed that Amazon l