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Service Line Portfolio Strategy Survey Research Primer

Preview findings from the Service Line Portfolio Strategy Survey, revealing three paradoxes in how health systems balance mission, financial performance, and ambulatory expansion

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Service Line Portfolio Strategy in 2026 | Section 1: The Valuation Paradox

Discover the gap between stated health system priorities for service lines and actual portfolio decisions under financial pressure.

A photo of the outside of a new pharmacy-only CVS, with signage advertising the new store type.

Is CVS ditching the general store model? We visited one of their new pharmacy-only locations—here’s what we noticed.

The new stores have footprints around 3,000 square feet—about half the size of their traditional stores—and the location we visited seemed even smaller than that.