Amazon Care is a hybrid virtual and in-home primary care service that launched in 2019. (Amazon Image) 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 for our enterprise customers.” The surprise move Wednesday…
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Amazon Care’s app. (Amazon Care Image) Almost 400 workers based in Washington state will be laid off as a result of the company’s decision to shut down its Amazon Care primary healthcare services. Email alerts from the state’s Employment Security Department revealed that 159 workers will be laid off from Amazon Care. Another 236 people…
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Zócalo Health founders Erik Cardenas and Mariza Hardin. (Zócalo Photo) A new virtual healthcare startup, Zócalo Health, has raised $5 million to fuel plans to provide primary care focused on the Latino population. Seattle-based Zócalo was co-founded last year by CEO Erik Cardenas and Mariza Hardin, head of strategy and operations, who were early hires at…