NEW YORK — Cardinal Health Inc. and AmerisourceBergen Corp. will be network administrators in the Federal Pharmacy Partnership Strategy for COVID-19, which will enable independent, small chain and long-term-care pharmacies to participate in the vaccination effort. McKesson Corp., which will be a centralized vaccine distributor, is preparing to carry out the Centers for Disease Control
POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Though it’s been around since 1980, the Southern Drug Store Association (SDSA) doesn’t receive as much press as other industry organizations, but that doesn’t mean the work that it does is any less important. SDSA is comprised of regional chains, not just in the South but across the country, and each
NEW YORK — The presidential election has changed who will be the leader of the free world, but it hasn’t changed the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t going away and will be waiting for President-elect Joe Biden when he takes office on January 20. As it was during the election, COVID is certain to
It’s been a very long time since the remarkably stable top ranks of the chain drug community have witnessed so sudden and dramatic a series of seismic shifts — simultaneously. It’s as if the very earth that has long supported and grounded chain drug retailing has suddenly, and without warning, determined that stability has its
The evolution of CVS Health during Larry Merlo’s tenure as president and chief executive officer has been truly remarkable. Merlo, who earlier this month announced that he will retire on February 1 after a decade in the job, guided the transformation of the company from a drug store operator — albeit one that had, three
