Scott Morris, the founder of the Church Health Center, often says this: “The best diagnosis in the world doesn’t do you any good if you can’t afford your medicine.”
To help more people afford medicine, the Church Health Center is partnering with Methodist University Hospital to open a new Outpatient Pharmacy on the hospital’s first floor.
The pharmacy currently serves Methodist outpatients and associates, but it will expand in coming months to serve Church Health Center patients, Methodist Teaching Practice patients, and then the 3,000 workers and their dependents under the Church Health Center’s MEMPHIS plan. The eventual goal is to open the pharmacy to others who lack access to affordable prescriptions.
“What we bring to the table is the ability to collect donated medications,” says Marvin Stockwell, the Church Health Center’s PR manager.
