Now able to provide a broader range of health services, pharmacists in Ontario this week will begin administering flu shots via the provincial government’s Universal Influenza Immunization Program.
In the battle for market share among chain drug retailers, store formats are pre-empting numbers. Rather than seeking to dominate metropolitan areas by saturating them with new stores, drug chains are seeking to draw shoppers with distinctive retail concepts. Walgreen Co.
Despite having high levels of customer satisfaction, retail pharmacies have a number of areas where they can improve service in filling prescriptions, research from Boehringer Ingelheim’s Pharmacy Satisfaction Pulse Survey reveals.
Alan Lotvin has been appointed as executive vice president of specialty pharmacy at CVS Caremark Corp.
Store space is growing for consumables and, in turn, shrinking for nonedible products in the food, drug and mass retail channel, according to a study by Kantar Retail and Crossmark.
Walgreen Co.’s Take Care Health Systems has partnered with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) and technology provider American Well Inc. to provide telehealth services to thousands of BCBSNC employees in North Carolina.
London Drugs has begun flu vaccination clinics at stores across British Columbia and Alberta. The western Canada drug chain said the flu shot clinics started this week and are being held through Nov. 1 in Alberta and Nov. 17 in British Columbia.
The National Community Pharmacists Association has released a new video that portrays the value of the personalized care that community pharmacists provide to patients.
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA), Rite Aid Corp. and the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy were part of a group recognized by accreditation body URAC for a cloud-based health management program that improved the quality of care to consumers.
Walgreen Co. has launched a hospital discharge services program that aims to improve transition of care and reduce readmission rates. Called WellTransitions, the coordinated care program comes as a new law effective Oct.
Independent pharmacists helped trim health care costs by dispensing a record high number of generic drugs in 2011 and reported more frequent interaction with doctors to promote generic drug utilization, according to the National Community Pharmacists Association’s 2012 NCPA Digest.
CVS/pharmacy this weekend is getting customers to celebrate Halloween early in its drug stores. The drug chain said Monday that it plans to hold its second annual Family Halloween Party on Sunday, Oct. 21, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at all 7,400 stores across the country. For the event, families are
Starting this month, London Drugs is slated to roll out a noninvasive skin cholesterol test in 11 of its stores. Results from the PreVu skin cholesterol test, which doesn’t draw blood, are available immediately.
The nation’s largest drug chains are positioning their pharmacists as trusted advisers for seniors as the open enrollment period for Medicare Part D prescription drug plans (PDPs) gets under way.
A federal appeals court has heard an appeal of a decision earlier this year to halt a controversial 10% reimbursement cut in Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program. The U.S.
The Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores (CACDS) applauded Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care Deb Matthews and the Ontario government for the approval of regulations that expand the health services that pharmacists can provide.
