Long-term care facilities nationwide can voluntarily opt in to a free pharmacy partnership program that will provide and administer future COVID-19 vaccines on site, federal officials announced Friday.
Residents and workers of all long-term care settings will receive free vaccinations against the coronavirus onsite under a special public-private partnership with pharmaceutical giants CVS and Walgreens, federal health officials announced Friday.
The acquisition of long-term care pharmacy PharMerica Corporation by investment firm KKR has been completed slightly ahead of schedule, the companies announced Thursday.
I have a friend who might be best described as a curmudgeon-in-training. He seems to live in a world where almost everything was better than it is now.
In the hearty debates taking place around McKnight’s stories about the flu shot, there’s one angle that, quite frankly, hasn’t been brought up much.
With more vendors targeting the hospice market, two drug giants appear ready to face off. Walgreens left the institutional-pharmacy business in 2010, of which hospice pharmacy is a part, in a deal with Omnicare. Walgreens traded the unit for Omnicare’s home-infusion business. Since then, Omnicare has been the market leader for hospice drugs. So why the strategy change for Walgreens?
Walgreens has purchased drugstore.com for $409 million, the company announced. The acquisition gives Walgreens access to drugstore.com’s three million customers. Walgreens is the nation’s largest drugstore chain. The company’s 7,689 drugstores generated more than $67 billion in sales last year.
