CCS pairs with Genoa Healthcare to open pharmacy
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HURON — Wednesday marked the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a project that has been months in process for Community Counseling Services (CCS). The agency officially opened a new pharmacy within the administrative offices located at 88 Third St. S.E. in Huron.
Genoa Healthcare partnered with CCS to open a pharmacy within the location to offer pharmacy services to CCS clients and staff, along with others as well.
“I believe we are here because of a shared passion,” Ace Magin, regional Director of Operations for Genoa shared during the ribbon-cutting Wednesday. “We have a shared passion for the most vulnerable, the most underserved patients, behavioral health patients.”
Genoa offers prefilled medication planners, medication education, medication delivery and more through pharmacist Lea Telkamp and pharmacy technician Elissa Bruns. Office hours for the pharmacy are the same as CCS general office hours of operation, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday with weekends and all federal holidays closed.
CCS Chief Executive Officer Belinda Nelson expressed that the pharmacy will look at potential community partners to include in the future, but the pharmacy will be a “closed” pharmacy, open to selected persons who are granted access.
“We have a very severe mentally ill population that we work with,” Nelson noted. “Part of the draw of Genoa was to decrease medication errors, increase medication compliance and improve outcomes.”
Nelson noted that CCS has had a “soft” opening with Genoa since February, and staff and consumers within the agency have already spoken highly of the changeover.
She also mentioned that Genoa’s reserve of behavioral health medication due to the Genoa pharmacies across the country allows for extremely fast transfer of medications for patients, whether that be to the pharmacy or even directly to the patient, if a medication is out of stock locally.
Magin expressed the fit with CCS being one that made a lot of sense for Genoa and that the company is excited to be in Huron.
“We are proud to be here and proud to be part of the Community Counseling family,” Magin stated. “We say that our mission is to impact lives, and this partnership will allow us to do that together.”
