News and Insights
The latest news and insights from Genoa Healthcare.
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1,000 consumers stay on their treatment because one Genoa Healthcare pharmacy team stepped up
After a large long-term care pharmacy in Anchorage, Alaska unexpectedly announced its closure earlier this year, patients across the state were left unsure of where they could get the medications...
- Sep 27th, 2024
- Consumer Stories
- Partnering with Genoa
- People-first Pharmacy Care
Partnering with ACT teams to make an even bigger impact
Genoa Healthcare® pharmacist Julie R. has seen firsthand the impact that severe and persistent mental illness can have on a person. For one of her consumers living with schizophrenia, the...
- May 17th, 2024
- Consumer Stories
- People-first Pharmacy Care
National Prevention Week: Genoa pharmacy teams put training into action to support consumers living with substance use disorder
When she heard a woman down the street from her pharmacy became unresponsive after using opioids, Genoa Healthcare® Pharmacist Kristen Pyland leveraged her training and quick thinking to help save...
- May 14th, 2024
- Consumer Stories
- People-first Pharmacy Care
For consumers living with Tardive Dyskinesia, Genoa Healthcare’s Clinical Assistance Program offers personalized support
Tardive Dyskinesia – a neurological disorder linked to prolonged use of antipsychotic medications – impacts over 600,000 individuals each year. Did you know that 50% of consumers taking TD medication...
- May 1st, 2024
- Consumer Stories
- People-first Pharmacy Care
For people in crisis, access to a safe place is critical
Content warning: This post discusses mental illness and substance use. Please call the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Helpline at...
- Nov 14th, 2023
- Consumer Stories
- Partnering with Genoa
Meeting needs and making days: How Genoa does pharmacy care differently
It’s not often you hear that someone looks forward to a pharmacy visit. But for one Genoa consumer, it’s a day-brightener every time she stops in. Dorothy has used the...
- Jul 12th, 2023
- Consumer Stories
- People-first Pharmacy Care
Genoa Pharmacist faces winter snowstorm to deliver consumers’ medications
When Watertown, New York, Pharmacist Meredith Sullivan made the call to close her pharmacy in preparation for an incoming snowstorm on Friday, Dec. 23, she wondered how the pharmacy’s closure...
- Mar 8th, 2023
- Consumer Stories
- People-first Pharmacy Care
Genoa pharmacist provides support after identifying signs of mental health crisis
Pharmacist Angela Hanggi always starts her long-acting injection appointments by asking her consumers how they have been feeling since she last saw them. She was surprised when she was recently...
- Jan 9th, 2023
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- People-first Pharmacy Care
Genoa pharmacist saves the life of someone she’s never met
Having witnessed the effects of the opioid crisis in her community firsthand, Genoa Healthcare® Pharmacist Kristen Pyland had prepared for the day she’d need to rush into action to aid...
- Nov 8th, 2022
- Consumer Stories
- People-first Pharmacy Care
Genoa pharmacist makes connections through music
When Genoa Healthcare® Pharmacist Christine Baker began assisting a rural doctor’s office by administering long-acting injectable treatments at the pharmacy, she met an 18-year-old woman with schizophrenia who touched her...
- Oct 4th, 2022