Dead Mall? Convert it to a Health Clinic

I thought with some, like Park City near me in Lancaster PA, if you would convert the old anchor stores (Sears ect..), this one had 4, only 2 are being used, to apartments, the rest of the mall could still thrive with stores and restaurants people who lived there could eat at. As long as you had proper security set up, it would give new life to the building. Parking would certainly not be an issue.

LTC Eugene Chu "Sprawling suburban malls have fallen on hard times lately. But as Blake Farmer reports, the largely defunct complexes are serving a new function: healthcare. “What big-city health systems need most is something shopping malls have plenty of: space and parking. They offer convenience for patients and practitioners, as well as costing less than expanding an existing hospital campus.”

According to the article, “Nationwide, 32 enclosed malls house health care services in at least part of their footprint, according to a database kept by Ellen Dunham-Jones, a Georgia Tech urban design professor.” Many of these opened during the pandemic, writes Farmer, “but medicine’s reuse of retail space is more than pandemic opportunism, according to a November article in the Harvard Business Review. The three authors suggest the rise of telemedicine and continued push toward outpatient procedures will make malls increasingly attractive locations for health care.”...

Great idea for real estate that has lost value to reduce clinic over head but we do not have the staff. The cost of nursing has doubled and we are short with what we have.