CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – A new nonprofit pharmacy is helping fill a need created when the First Avenue Hy-Vee closed in Cedar Rapids last year.
The Eastern Iowa Health Center pharmacy held its grand opening on Thursday. CEO Joe Lock says this new $1.5 million pharmacy is desperately needed by the community the nonprofit serves. 70% of its patients live below the federal poverty level.
“Well, we got this 30 page needs assessment. It made you either want to cry or pull out your checkbook or both. I mean, there was just so much need,” says Lock. “And then it was only exacerbated and really put forward when the pharmacy closed at Hy-Vee June 26th of last year.” The pharmacy, like all EIHC’s services, is open to everyone in the community…