|Articles|November 22, 2004

This community pharmacy fills hospital discharge scripts

A pharmacy in Philadelphia has carved out a niche by dispatching a staffer across the street a couple of times a day to deliver prescriptions to patients scheduled to be discharged from a behavioral health hospital in the City of Brotherly Love.

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