Spring 2024
Rx care next door
Tyler Young takes care of his neighbors as owner of Vashon Pharmacy. » More ...
Pharmacists
Spring 2024
A prescription for rural pharmacy
Washington State University’s Rural Health Initiative is a prescription to providing Rx care next door. » More ...
Summer 2016
The Pharmacist will see you now.
Shelves full of informational brochures, health aids, and other over-the-counter remedies. Pharmacists filling and checking prescriptions, tending to paperwork, and meeting with customers.
Tucked into a portion of a busy Fred Meyer retail store, it looks like a typical community pharmacy.
Except there’s a difference. A big one that could help transform how and where many routine health care services are delivered.
Located in the Vancouver suburb of Mill Plain, it’s among the first wave of enhanced pharmacies where customers not only can fill prescriptions but receive direct medical care for a range of common ailments that would otherwise require a trip to a doctor’s … » More …
Winter 2013
David Cox ’71—Generations Rx
David Cox’s life seems equally divided between his South Bend pharmacy and hunting. And family encompasses both.
Cox is the second generation of a three-generation dynasty of pharmacists in South Bend, the county seat of Pacific County, just upstream on the Willapa River from Willapa Bay.
Don Cox ’46 graduated from Washington State University twice, first in chemistry before joining the Army during World War II, then in pharmacy in 1946. He began his career in Long Beach, then started the South Bend Pharmacy in 1958. The business is difficult to miss. Just off of U.S. 101, it is painted a tasteful gray with … » More …