09/22/2026
As I clean up the pharmacy I am keeping the cards and all the thank you notes that we have received. We can not tell you how much that means to us but please do not feel bad for us, feel angry.
I reached out to the newspapers to tell our stories and then WTAJ got a hold of the story not to receive the cards or to make people feel sad, but rather to show the negative impact that losing a community pharmacy has on the people and community they serve. I hope you reach out to your representatives and senators and tell them how when your pharmacy closes it impacts the available healthcare resources you have access to.
I feel that when I talked to them, including Governor Shapiro in person, that they did not fully understand or thought I was asking for more profit for my wallet.
I am taking down the photos and thank you plaques from local football, baseball, basketball, and junior livestock purchases we made at the Bedford County Fair, and I do not think I have ever seen CVS, Express Scripts, or Optum Rx, sponsor any youth sports. The 3 big PBM's say they care about your health and community but their actions speak louder than words. My pharmacy is not alone, I am one of about 1000 pharmacies that have closed since 2020. That is about 160 pharmacies closing per year. This has hit rural areas like ours especially hard.
If you are not sure what to say to anyone who can help the situation please use the words of one of our customers when asked what she would like to say to our leaders who could do something about this. "Stop being stupid!"
I have received many questions about what I am going to do. I just took a job as the pharmacist at Tyrone hospital. Thank you again.
