{"id":38415,"date":"2019-12-12T15:14:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T23:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/?p=38415"},"modified":"2019-12-12T15:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T23:21:09","slug":"in-house-pharmacies-will-meet-patient-community-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/in-house-pharmacies-will-meet-patient-community-need\/","title":{"rendered":"In-house pharmacies will meet patient, community need"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38399\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38399 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharmacy-rgb-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"Phoenix Health Center pharmacy\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharmacy-rgb-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharmacy-rgb-1024x853.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharmacy-rgb-1536x1280.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharmacy-rgb-2048x1706.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pharmacist Karen Smith and technician Domonique Valdez work at the Phoenix Health Center pharmacy, which opened this fall thanks to early support from generous Caring for our Community donors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>La Clinica has opened its first community pharmacy inside La Clinica Phoenix Health Center and will open a second one in January at the La Clinica Wellness Center.<\/p>\n<p>La Clinica can buy prescription medication at federally negotiated low prices, then pass the savings along to patients who don\u2019t have insurance that covers prescription drugs or who face high co-pays.<\/p>\n<p>The first week La Clinica Community Pharmacy was open, a patient came in with a long list of medications she wanted to transfer from another pharmacy,\u00a0 hoping to see discounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we got through the list, she was crying because now she could afford to pay for all her medication,\u201d pharmacist Karen Smith said. Patients also have mentioned the convenience of having a pharmacy at the same location as where they see their healthcare provider, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The pharmacy is open to community members as well as to patients. Early support from generous Caring for our Community donors helped launch this new service.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38419\" src=\"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharmacy-blog-post-graphic_Page_2.jpg\" alt=\"Pharmacy chart\" width=\"2540\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharmacy-blog-post-graphic_Page_2.jpg 2540w, https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharmacy-blog-post-graphic_Page_2-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharmacy-blog-post-graphic_Page_2-1024x344.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharmacy-blog-post-graphic_Page_2-1536x516.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharmacy-blog-post-graphic_Page_2-2048x688.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2540px) 100vw, 2540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Clinica has opened its first community pharmacy inside La Clinica Phoenix Health Center and will open a second one in January at the La Clinica Wellness Center. La Clinica [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[132,131],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Julie Wurth","author_link":"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/author\/jwurth\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laclinicahealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}