About a year after launching a program to help create more job opportunities for people with disabilities in Connecticut, 62 participants have completed training under the Walgreens Retail Employees with Disabilities Initiative (REDI).
The National Community Pharmacists Association has installed new officers and board members for its 2012-13 term. NCPA said Wednesday that Donnie Calhoun, who owns two pharmacies in Anniston, Ala., has been named president. He is also the 2012 president of the Alabama Board of Pharmacy.
MinuteClinic has set foot in a new market with the opening of three walk-in clinics in CVS/pharmacy stores in the Asheville, N.C., area. The CVS Caremark retail health clinic subsidiary said Wednesday that the new clinics are located in Arden, Asheville and Hendersonville, N.C.
Navarro Discount Pharmacy is recognizing Breast Cancer Awareness Month by putting pink prescription bottle caps on all prescriptions filled during October. Navarro will use the pink Rx caps during October.
Bartell Drugs has teamed up with EveryMove to launch an online rewards program that encourages its customers to pursue healthy lifestyles. Under the EveryMove program, rewards for healthy activities include Bartell Drugs gift cards.
The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) is urging Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett to support state legislation that would give consumers more leeway to choose to go to a local retail pharmacy instead of being required to use a mail-order pharmacy for their prescriptions.
Citing key findings of a major medical study on multivitamins, CVS/pharmacy and Walgreens are touting their stores and pharmacies as a destinations for consumers seeking dietary supplements and advice The drug chains said Monday that according to new research by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harv
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.
