How One Rural Town Without A Pharmacy Is Crowdsourcing To Get Meds
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...
Source: kunc.org