July 6, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
Colleen Lindholz, COVID-19, Kroger Health
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Colleen Lindholz, president of Kroger Co.’s health care business, talks about the company’s response to COVID-19, the evolution of community pharmacy, the link between health and nutrition, and the move toward value-based care.
June 29, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
COVID-19, Hy-Vee, Jeffrey Woldt, Randy Edeker
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Videos
In the latest installment in our Video Forum series, Randy Edeker, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Hy-Vee Inc., talks about the food/drug combination store operator’s response to the unprecedented challenges of recent months, the need to take care of customers and staffers, and retailing in an omnichannel world.
June 29, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
Ornella Barra, Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA)
June 29, 2020, Opinion
One characteristic Ornella Barra has evinced throughout her career in community pharmacy and drug wholesaling is the ability to adapt to changing conditions. That talent has served Walgreens Boots Alliance’s co-chief operating officer well in recent months: Both before and after the emergence of COVID-19, she has been a catalyst for innovation. A good example
June 15, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
Chain Drug Review's Video Forum, CHPA, enacted O-T-C monograph reform, Scott Melville
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Videos
The latest installment in our Video Forum features Scott Melville, president and chief executive officer of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association. In addition to the rebranding of CHPA, Melville talks about what recently enacted O-T-C monograph reform means for the category, and the increasingly important part that nonprescription products are playing in health care.
June 8, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
AmerisourceBergen, Chain Drug Review's Video Forum, Good Neighbor Pharmacy, Rich Tremonte
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Pharmacy, Videos
In the latest installment of our Video Forum, Rich Tremonte, executive vice president and president of community and specialty pharmacy at AmerisourceBergen, discusses the company’s success in keeping the pharmaceutical supply chain on track during the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, pharmacy retailers’ stepped-up efforts to meet the needs of patients, and the Good Neighbor
June 1, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
CHPA, Scott Melville
June 1, 2020, Leading Headlines, Supplier News
WASHINGTON — Coming off one of the most significant public policy victories in its 139-year history, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) is updating its brand image and revamping its structure to better reflect the expanding scope of the over-the-counter health care sector. “We asked our members what we want to be, who we want
June 1, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
Jim Peters, Rite Aid
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Rite Aid’s ongoing turnaround efforts have been complicated by the arrival of COVID-19. In the second of Chain Drug Review’s new series of video interviews, chief operating officer Jim Peters shares his insights about the company’s robust response to the pandemic and the core elements of the plan designed to revitalize and extend Rite Aid’s
June 1, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
COVID-19
June 1, 2020, Opinion
President Trump held a press briefing in the White House Rose Garden last month to formally launch Operation Warp Speed, a public-private program intended to foster the development of pharmaceuticals to combat the novel coronavirus. During the event, Trump reiterated his pledge that a vaccine that prevents COVID-19 will be available to Americans by the
May 22, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
Alex Gourlay, Richard Ashworth, Walgreens
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Retail News
DEERFIELD, Ill. – With Richard Ashworth’s resignation as Walgreens president to lead Tivity Health Inc., one thread in the drug chain’s storied history is coming to an end, even as the overarching narrative of its transformation continues. Ashworth – whose duties are being assumed by Walgreens Boots Alliance co-chief operating officer Alex Gourlay, whom he
May 21, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
Meijer president and chief executive officer Rick Keyes, NACDS, NACDS president and chief executive officer Steven Anderson
Leading Headlines, Pharmacy
ARLINGTON, Va. – Rick Keyes, president and chief executive officer of Meijer Inc., has succeeded Richard Ashworth as chairman of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. Triggered by Ashworth’s resignation as Walgreens president to become CEO at Tivity Health Inc., the transition adheres to the association’s long-established succession plan. Keyes, who had been NACDS
May 18, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
community pharmacy, coronavirus, COVID-19
May 18, 2020, Opinion
Entrenched assumptions about the role of community pharmacy are being uprooted by the COVID-19 crisis, and leaders of five of the nation’s largest retailers accelerated the process last month during a meeting with President Trump and the Coronavirus Task Force at the White House. The executives were there to lend support to the public-private partnership
May 11, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
COVID-19, Jeffrey Woldt editor-in-chief Chain Drug Review, NACDS president and chief executive officer Steven Anderson
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The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented demands on retail pharmacies. In the first of Chain Drug Review’s new series of video interviews, NACDS president and chief executive officer Steve Anderson talks about how the industry has responded to the challenge, the lessons being learned from the experience, and what the association’s priorities will be when
April 30, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
COVID-19 testing, Doug McMillion, Heyward Donigan, Larry Merlo, NACDS, President Trump, Richard Ashworth
Opinion
Entrenched assumptions about the role of community pharmacy are being uprooted by the COVID-19 crisis, and leaders of five of the nation’s largest retailers accelerated the process earlier this week during a meeting with President Trump and the Coronavirus Task Force at the White House. The executives were there to lend support to the public-private
April 27, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
COVID-19, pharmacy
April 27, 2020, Opinion
As the nation’s health care system has come under intense scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors, nurses and hospital systems, especially those dealing directly with coronavirus patients, have earned accolades for their heroic efforts to save lives and restore health. Two other components of the health care system — one routinely undervalued, the other often