{"id":18187,"date":"2012-06-20T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2012\/06\/drug-store-hbc-chain-industry-updates-2\/"},"modified":"2012-06-20T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T19:12:00","slug":"drug-store-hbc-chain-industry-updates-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2012\/06\/drug-store-hbc-chain-industry-updates-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Store & HBC Chain Industry Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Personnel Updates<\/span><\/u><\/b>:<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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AmerisourceBergen<\/span><\/b><\/span> appointed Lazarus Krikorian VP, Corporate Controller, effective immediately. Mr. Krikorian was previously VP, Assistant Corporate Controller, a position he held since joining AmerisourceBergen in 2002
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NACDS<\/span><\/b> appointed Tom O’Donnell as VP Federal Government Affairs.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

Rite Aid<\/span><\/b><\/span> has appointed president and CEO John Standley as Chairman.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Walgreens<\/span><\/b> has announced the appointment of Alan London as Chief Medical Officer of Take Care Health Systems Consumer Solutions Group. In the newly created position, London will have leadership responsibility in building and maintaining external physician and health system relationships for Take Care Clinics while also providing strategic direction and leadership for the group\u2019s service expansion, quality, clinical education and training, and collaborative practice agreement functions. London joined Walgreens on May 21.\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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Industry Insight<\/span><\/u><\/b>:<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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MinuteClinic,<\/span><\/b> the retail health care division of\u00a0CVS Caremark<\/b>\u00a0is partnering with\u00a0Florida Hospital<\/b>\u00a0Medical Group\u00a0(FHMG), a multi-specialty physician group affiliated with\u00a0Florida Hospital, in a clinical affiliation that expands access to convenient, affordable health care services in\u00a0Central Florida.Under the agreement, FHMG physicians will serve as medical directors for a dozen MinuteClinic walk-in medical clinics inside select CVS\/pharmacy stores in the\u00a0City of Orlando\u00a0and five surrounding counties. <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Navarro Discount Pharmacy<\/span><\/b><\/span>, a Hispanic-owned pharmacy chain and an MBF Healthcare portfolio company, has announced the addition of a liquor store operation adjacent to an existing store in Miami Beach. <\/p>\n

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Take Care Clinics<\/span><\/b> are now offering three new diagnostic tests and administrative physicals. The launch of these new services is based on input from patients, managed care organizations and health care providers on ways to help prevent the progression of disease and use the most appropriate point of care.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

Target<\/span><\/b> has announced its plans to open new Target Clinic<\/b>locations at four Target stores in northern Virginia and four Target stores in North Carolina, marking the first Target Clinics to open in these states.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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Mergers and Acquisitions<\/span><\/u><\/b>:<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Cardinal Health<\/span><\/b>has acquired regional wholesaler Dik Drug<\/b> for an undisclosed price, according to published reports.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates: AmerisourceBergen appointed Lazarus Krikorian VP, Corporate Controller, effective immediately. Mr. Krikorian was previously VP, Assistant Corporate Controller, a position he held since joining AmerisourceBergen in 2002 NACDS appointed Tom O’Donnell as VP Federal Government Affairs. Rite Aid has appointed president and CEO John Standley as Chairman. Walgreens has announced the appointment of Alan… Continue reading Drug Store & HBC Chain Industry Updates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[6,11],"class_list":["post-18187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-hbc","tag-csg-old","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}