Amazon plans to shut Amazon Care service amid One Medical overlap
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Amazon is closing its primary care and telehealth service, a sudden move that follows the company’s deal to buy the One Medical chain of clinics.
Amazon Care, which was launched in 2019, will close by the end of the year, Senior Vice President Neil Lindsay said in an email to the company’s health care team.
“This decision wasn’t made lightly and only became clear after many months of careful consideration,” Lindsay said in the email, which was reviewed by Bloomberg. “Although our enrolled members have loved many aspects of Amazon Care, it is not a complete enough offering for the large enterprise customers we have been targeting, and wasn’t going to work long-term.”
Lindsay said many displaced workers will have opportunities to join other teams within Amazon.
