It’s never good to see this kind of executive-level turnover. That’s going to be hard to recapture if Walmart hopes to reboot their health clinics and grow them down the road. … I’ve long been excited by what Walmart’s doing to reinvent primary care and hope that this is a pause in the journey, not an abrupt and disappointing ending.

James Gardner, a Boston-based retail consultant who has followed Walmart’s effort in the health space, commenting in an email to MedCity News for its recent report, “Clinical Leaders Behind Walmart’s Health Strategy Depart.”