For KHN Walden, Colorado, has no hospital and no pharmacy, only a small clinic. The clinic stocks basic medications to handle routine acute needs, but residents also band together to help one another pick up prescriptions when they head out on the hourlong drive over mountain passes to Laramie, Wyoming, or Granby or Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
The building that once housed the last drugstore in this town of fewer than 600 is now a barbecue restaurant, where pit boss Larry Holtman dishes out smoked brisket and pulled pork across the same counter where pharmacists dispensed vital medications more than 30 years ago.
How one rural town without a pharmacy is crowdsourcing to get meds
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Rural medical care in US: Walden, Colorado, has no pharmacy, hospital
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COVID-19 shot in the arm not enough to keep many pharmacy owners from saying ‘they’ve had enough’
Updated May 06, 2021;
Posted May 06, 2021
Once covid vaccines arrived, Moose Pharmacy employees sought out patients needing help to make appointments and rides to mass vaccination clinics. (Logan Cyrus for KHN/TNS)TNS
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Tobin’s pharmacy and department store had already stocked its shelves with Easter and Mother’s Day items last spring, and the staff had just placed the Christmas orders. The shop in Oconomowoc, Wis., had been operating on a razor’s edge as retail sales moved online and mail-order pharmacies siphoned off its patients. It was losing money on 1 out of 4 pill bottles filled, so the front of the store, where it sold clothing, cosmetics and jewelry, had been compensating for pharmacy losses for years.