We have had lots of opportunity to be a blessing to those struggling with the Medicare Gap! This month alone we have helped approximately 70 community members that have fallen into the gap. That is in addition to all the other things we do to try and help including our essential meds, our work with the Sheep Clinic, and even just helping people get meds for less than their copays. We’ve helped multiple cancer patients save over a thousand dollars each this month just by providing them meds at our cost instead of the price their insurance requested.
You may think it’s disgusting…but it’s LEGO SNOT!
We have lots of activities coming up including a Lost and Found field trip, our first rom-com movie, and a LEGO SNOT competition.
This Tuesday Lost and Found will be at the Penn Hills Senior Center talking about medication compliance and different strategies and systems that can be employed. It will hopefully be more fun than the field trip when my fifth grade class went to a funeral home. When we got there the funeral director attempted to open with a joke
Did you hear that the pope got the bird flu?
Apparently he got it from a cardinal.
So as you may have guessed from our opening joke, we have our flu vaccine in stock. The last couple of years pharmacies have generally run out of inventory pretty quickly, so stop in and get yours soon.
The Winners are…
Between 32 raffle baskets and a LEGO competition with three different age categories, there are a whole lot of winners. Before we start listing all of them, I should also remind you of our next movie night coming up in two weeks, LEGO Batman!
I woke up this morning and found a pile of LEGO bricks at the front door.
I didn’t know what to make of it.
This weekend is our LEGO Competition, followed by our Labor Day cookout on Monday and our big raffle basket drawing.
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MyEMMA – pharmacy automation for where you are at!
Medications are an important part of staying healthy for many people; however, it can get complicated. You may be good with a medication box, or using our freely available compliance packs. Some people may want something that can actually remind when their medications are due and track the medications that they only take when they need them. This is where our new product called MyEMMA fits in.
MyEMMA, once plugged in and connected to a wifi signal can get updates directly from the pharmacy when meds are changed and will also let the pharmacy know when you are running low so we can come and add the necessary drugs before you run out. Remote access for monitoring can be shared with a physician or a loved one. MyEMMA will remind you when your medication is due with an audible sound and does provide options to accept or reject medicine. There is also an onscreen option for individuals to take meds that they only need occasionally (including pain meds, medication for nausea, etc.).
Below is a short video on MyEMMA.
Typically, this is a relatively affordable product with no set-up fee and a $130/month lease price and $20/month for the pharmacy to provide the specially packaged medications for the MyEMMA. This gives it a total price tag of $150/month which is a lot less than having a medication service come to you to provide your meds at the appropriate time. That can often cost closer to $700/month. As this is a new product for us as well we are trying to encourage a number of people to take a free two month trial. We are offering this service currently to anyone within 10 miles of our store. If this is something you are interested in or have additional questions please call us at 412-243-1369 or use our contact form.
This is yet another way we are working to be your essential pharmacy.
Xanax rides a bike, Nat’l Waffle Day, and LEGOs!
So we’ve got way to much going on once again. Things are in full swing with our raffle, I took our therapy dog on her first bike ride, tomorrow is National Waffle Day, we have an up coming LEGO contest, our next movie also involves LEGOs, we have a new med delivery system called myEMMA, and more!
The Craft Show is This Saturday
Our Third Annual Craft Show is this Saturday (8/13/22) from 9AM – 2PM. Of course, organizing this craft show reminds me of the time I had the really unusual opportunity to organize Dwayne Johnson’s craft room. Unfortunately, I lost his scrapbook cutting tool. That’s right, I lost the Rock’s paper scissors. Hopefully I will still be able to find my scissors when this craft show is done
One of our crafters only wants to make miniature Jesus figurines.
Apparently he only wants to make a small prophet!
We are getting ready for our Third Annual Craft Show on August 13th. You should definitely sign up as we already have some great tables including a ‘Make and Take’ jewelry table, beautiful wooden pens, someone that has already pre-sold 28 cooling scarves, and more!
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I accidentally bought too much craft supplies.
I’m having an excess stencil crisis.
We are getting ready for our Third Annual Craft Show on August 13th. I truly love art and beautiful craft work. It reminds me of a time when I saw these three foreign individuals looking at a painting of Adam and Eve at the Carnegie Museum.
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