Two Texas grocery stores are now home to a new kind of healthcare visit: no appointment, no waiting room, and no cost to the person walking in.
OnMed has launched new locations of the CareStation inside Fiesta Mart locations in Fort Worth and Missouri City, placing tech-enabled, human-delivered care directly inside stores where families already do their weekly shopping. The Missouri City CareStation, at 1530 Independence Blvd., opened Thursday, July 10, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.—one day after the Fort Worth location opened at 421 West Bolt Ave.
Shoppers can now walk up to a CareStation the same way they'd walk up to a pharmacy counter, connect instantly with a licensed clinician in a private, secure space, and leave with a diagnosis or treatment plan—without ever leaving the store.
Howard Gruverman, OnMed's president and chief commercial officer, described the CareStation to Community Impact as "a hybrid health technology that can provide health care anywhere as long as there is an outlet to plug it into." Inside, a clinician appears on screen at human scale and can remotely check a patient's weight, temperature, blood pressure, and other vitals in real time.
Privacy is built into the design, not added on: the CareStation's windows fog automatically once a visit begins, and each unit runs a short cleaning cycle between patients. Visits are walk-up, with no appointment required, and the CareStation accepts insurance—there's no added cost for patients who don't have it.
The OnMed CareStation® is an 8×10-foot "Clinic-in-a-Box" built to deliver comprehensive, immediate care wherever people already are. Diagnostic tools inside the unit, including thermal imaging and real-time scanning, give the clinician what a video call alone can't provide: the ability to actually examine the patient, not just talk to them. Each visit is designed to feel like a traditional clinic appointment compressed into a single stop on a grocery run.
Fiesta Mart isn't a random retail partner. The chain has served Hispanic and other minority neighborhoods in Texas since 1972, and operates dozens of stores across the state under owner Bodega Latina. That footprint matters for a healthcare model built to reach people who are often underserved: putting a CareStation inside a store with five decades of trust in these specific communities gets OnMed closer to the people who need it most, faster than building trust from scratch would.
Grocery and retail stores are becoming a serious front door to healthcare, not a novelty. In 2022, 45% of U.S. consumers sought care at a retail health clinic, up 18 points from 2018, and 83% of pharmacy customers say they want health services available where they already shop. The economics back up the instinct: every 1% increase in a store's dwell time has been shown to produce a 1.3% increase in sales, which helps explain why a retailer would welcome a CareStation as more than a community benefit. Trade press covering this rollout has framed it the same way: Fiesta Mart isn't just hosting a clinic—it's testing whether a grocery store can be a viable healthcare access point at scale. Fort Worth and Missouri City are two of the clearest examples yet.
An estimated 167 million Americans delay seeking care, and 120 million of them point specifically to a lack of adequate access as the reason. That's not a rural problem or an urban problem—it shows up anywhere the nearest door to care is too far, too expensive, or too slow to reach. Putting real, tech-enabled care inside a grocery store shortens that distance to zero for the people who shop there. As more retailers look at what Fiesta Mart is doing in Fort Worth and Missouri City, this model offers one answer to a very large problem.
Fort Worth and Missouri City bring OnMed to five operational CareStation communities in Texas, alongside Milam, Navarro, and Bruni, with a sixth location in McAllen set to open later in July 2025. Nationally, OnMed has 30 CareStations under contract, with a goal of reaching 25 states by the end of the year.
For complete details on both openings, read the full press release..
OnMed is transforming how the world accesses healthcare. With its patented OnMed CareStation®, an 8×10 foot "Clinic-in-a-Box", OnMed delivers comprehensive, immediate care wherever people live, work, and learn. The OnMed CareStation is a tech-enabled, AI-powered, and human-delivered platform that blends the comprehensiveness of traditional in-person care with the rapid scalability of telemedicine. Each CareStation serves as a local access point within a scalable, connected grid that delivers everyday healthcare at scale.
Powered by public-private partnerships across insurers, healthcare providers, governments, employers, and educational institutions, OnMed is redefining healthcare access, closing critical gaps, restoring trust, and strengthening the health and economic resilience of communities everywhere. Learn more at www.onmed.com.
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OnMed is building the future of care delivery through an AI-amplified, human-delivered distributed care delivery platform. Its patented OnMed CareStation®, an 8x10-foot “Clinic-in-a-Box,” brings licensed clinicians and integrated diagnostic tools to the point of need, anywhere people live, work, and learn. Each CareStation is a local access point in a scalable, connected grid, so healthcare moves from a place you go to a grid that reaches you.
The OnMed CareStation® is an 8×10-foot "Clinic-in-a-Box" designed to expand healthcare access for the roughly 120 million Americans who lack adequate care. It combines one-on-one clinical consultation with the scalability of virtual care. Each CareStation includes diagnostic tools, real-time scans, and vital sign monitoring to deliver comprehensive visits at scale. About 80% of patients who use the CareStation do not have a primary care provider, and for many, it becomes their medical home. Our long-term vision is a national CareStation grid capable of serving up to 200 million lives annually by creating a scalable healthcare access infrastructure.
OnMed has launched new locations of the CareStation inside Fiesta Mart locations in Fort Worth and Missouri City, placing tech-enabled, human-delivered care directly inside stores where families already do their weekly shopping. The Missouri City CareStation, at 1530 Independence Blvd., opened Thursday, July 10, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.—one day after the Fort Worth location opened at 421 West Bolt Ave.
Fiesta Mart isn’t a random retail partner. The chain has served Hispanic and other minority neighborhoods in Texas since 1972, and operates dozens of stores across the state under owner Bodega Latina. Putting a CareStation inside a store with five decades of trust in these specific communities gets OnMed closer to the people who need it most, faster than building trust from scratch would.
120 million Americans still can’t reliably get through the door to basic care. More hospitals, more specialists, more spending—none of it reaches them without a real front door to care. The CareStation inside Fiesta Mart is a small-scale example of what that looks like: a real clinician inside a store people already trust, not one more thing standing between them and care. Read the access gap report →
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