Health & Well-Being • January 2010 33
Co-op cares about its
customers
The Co-op Pharmacy is well known meet your needs.
in our community for providing
If it is information you need,
excellent value, great customer service
set up an appointment for a
and skilled professionalism. We
structured medication review
balance professionalism with care and
with one of our friendly and
compassion. This is why we are known
knowledgeable pharmacists.
as Co-op “Care” Pharmacies.
You won’t find a more qualified
There are two convenient Co-op pharmacist in the city.
Pharmacy locations in Medicine Hat.
One service that should
They are both located at the front of
be emphasized is that of
each of the Co-op food stores. One is at
specialized packaging. This is
our 13th Avenue mall food store and one
very important. Both Co-op
is at the Northlands Marketplace.
pharmacies produce custom-
At each pharmacy we offer a variety of made “bubble packs,” also
services. We offer traditional prescription known as punch cards or blister
filling, which is the bread and butter of packs.
pharmacy businesses. But we go beyond
In a bubble pack, each dose
the basics. We also offer specialized
for each day is mapped out
packaging to help simplify medication
in its own individual bubble.
regimens.
You can see the medications
We offer crutch and nebulizer rentals. that are in each blister and for yourself or your loved ones.
We offer the FlavoRx flavouring program can tell what day and what time of day
We now have two pharmacists licensed
to improve the taste of liquid medicines. each bubble is for. You then punch the
to administer injections. This is at cost of
We also offer specially compounded medications through the foil backing on
$15.00. This offers a great opportunity to
syrups, creams, lotions and elixirs just the appropriate day and time.
those patients who are pressed for time
like your grandmother’s pharmacist
Bubble packaging helps patients to and do not wish to spend all afternoon
used to make.
simplify the way they take their medicine. in a clinic or doctors office.
In order to facilitate our pharmacy This helps people to remember when
Speaking of cost-effectiveness, did
practice we have joined the Alberta to take their medicine and shows that
you know that last year the Co-Op
Pharmacy Practice Models Initiative they have taken it if they check the
pharmacies returned 10 per cent of the
(PPMI). Representing a significant package later. It also shows care-givers
total prescription prices back to the
advancement for the pharmacy if the medication has been taken or
members in equity and cash back? That’s
profession, the PPMI explores how not. It helps seniors to maintain their
not a typo. Co-op returned back 10 per
community-based pharmacists can independence and delays moving to a
cent on the total prescription price.
be remunerated for using their clinical continuing care facility while improving
skills and expand scope of practice. health.
For example, if your prescription costs
These skills may include identifying and
$250, Blue Cross paid $225 and left you
A terrific feature of packaging produced
solving drug related problems, adapting
to pay $25 out of your pocket, the 10
at the Co-op is the labelling. Our labels
prescription, working with physicians
per cent was calculated on the entire
show all the usual information that
to optimize care or even administrating
prescription cost of $250. Ten per cent
appears on each prescription label as
injections. As a pharmacy, we can offer
of $250 is $25 and you got your money
well as which bubble each medication
this service to our clients with no out of
back. No-charge prescriptions is an
is in. It also provides the perfect
pocket expense as this demonstration
excellent value.
medication list for physician visits or
project is made possible with funding
hospital admissions.
Excellent value. Great customer service.
from Alberta Health and Wellness. Our
Skilled professionalism. All available
pharmacists would be happy to book
Bubble packaging is available at no extra
at your conveniently located Co-op
your appointment in order to devote the
charge, making a very cost-effective way
Pharmacy.
proper amount of uninterrupted time to
to manage multiple medications either
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