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January 12 is National Pharmacist Day, and RHHD has two important reasons to celebrate: our community partners,\u00a0Bremo Pharmacy<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Hope Pharmacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If we didn\u2019t know before, the COVID-19 pandemic showed us the work pharmacists do to provide vital vaccine and medication care to our communities. Thanks to Bremo, RHHD was able to reach and vaccinate residents for H1N1 all the way back in 2009. Both Bremo and Hope have been instrumental in our work on COVID-19 and treatments for HIV and STIs.<\/p>\n

Hope and Bremo are independently owned pharmacies. Joanna Cirillo, an RHHD Public Health Nurse Supervisor who has worked with both on vaccine rollout, says that \u201cLocal pharmacies are a critical member of the local healthcare ecosystem. They can have more flexibility than a bigger chain which allows them to meet the changing needs of a local community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like many services,\u00a0pharmacy locations highlight racial and social inequities<\/a>\u2014some neighborhoods have access to multiple pharmacy options, while others have none. Hope Pharmacy\u2019s mission is to reach low\/no-income residents, and their location in Church Hill closes a gap in pharmacy access. Hope\u2019s owner and operator is Richmond native Dr. Shantelle Brown, who shared with\u00a0Style Weekly<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cAs pharmacists, we are the most accessible healthcare professionals. Where else can you go to ask a question at the drop of a dime? People travel from afar to get their boosters and prescriptions here because they know we\u2019re here trying to do whatever we can for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bremo\u2014a Richmond staple since 1976\u2014builds education and delivery options into their services to make sure their medication reaches as many folks as effectively as possible. Tana Kaefer, Bremo\u2019s Director of Clincial Services, says that the pharmacy is able to reach their mission because pharmacists abide by core values that include prioritizing community members\u2019 health and well-being over sales and providing the same level of care and education to all. \u201cBremo pharmacists are special because they are problem solvers,\u201d she says. \u201cThey crave relationship building and taking care of the whole patient with specialty services that expand far beyond dispensing medications. We call this \u2018The Bremo Way.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Celebrate National Pharmacist Day by exploring the range of educational and care services offered by these two irreplaceable community members! After all. . .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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