Professional Pharmacy

Professional Pharmacy by David Thompson

For 60 years, Professional Pharmacy has been the go-to pharmacy for many in Dalton and Whitfield County. Why? The answer is simple: superior customer service and a focus on meeting your needs.

Professional Pharmacy is located at 1100 Burleyson Rd. in Dalton, right across from the hospital and surrounded by doctor’s offices and nursing homes. This helps serve the business’s large and loyal customer base by being the most accessible healthcare professional to help “round out the healthcare industry,” as president and pharmacy manager Jason Sneed put it. Professional Pharmacy exists to make your medical challenges as easy to solve as possible, and they’ll be there for you, offering counseling and guidance and ensuring that you receive what you need as soon as you need it.

One way Professional Pharmacy meets the needs of its customers is by offering prescription delivery anywhere in the county. “Most chains don’t deliver,” said Jason. “They may mail out prescriptions, but we hand-deliver them, and it’s same-day service if you call in by the delivery cutoff at 2 o’clock!” Delivery was a feature that mattered a lot during the pandemic, a time when many people were either quarantined or unwilling to go shopping in town. Over time, Professional Pharmacy began offering curbside pickup as well. They stayed open full time during the pandemic without shutting down because Jason and

his staff wanted to serve their customers. “We did social distancing and wore masks and gloves, but we continued business as usual. We didn’t want to not be here when someone needed us,” Jason said.

Professional Pharmacy also caters to its customers by being open all week long with extended hours, making it easier for you to fit a trip to the pharmacy into your schedule. “We’re open seven days a week, which is a plus,” said Jason.” “Most mom-and-pop pharmacies are only open, at most, six days a week with really short hours on the weekends, and we’re open a lot longer on the weekends. We’re open when you need us!” Their store hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday.

Another thing that separates Professional Pharmacy from other pharmacies, specifically the big chain pharmacies, is that they can save you a lot of time and money. Here’s what Jason had to say about it: “We make decisions and make changes and implement Pharmacy will custom-make the medication to fit each them immediately, while corporate organizations have individual case. If the medicine you need only comes in to get through a lot of red tape and [multiple] bosses a specific strength and you need something different, to get things done. We’re typically a lot faster than they can help with that too. And if you’re throwing up most chains, without as much wait time, and we use and nauseous and you can’t keep medicine down, they prescription robotics to help ensure the accuracy of can recreate the medication as a suppository, a gel, or our prescriptions.” This was key during the pandemic, a topical cream so it’ll absorb through the skin and you when companies had to make very tough decisions on don’t have to take it by mouth. This is very important in a daily basis regarding stock, availability, customer veterinary medication, as Jason pointed out: “A lot of pets accessibility, and pricing. Regarding the difference in take human medication, but it may not [ordinarily] be pricing, Jason said, “Our pricing is competitive; we in a form or strength they can take.” The compounding can save you $30–40 on certain drugs, we accept all pharmacy takes what would normally be a major hurdle insurance plans, and we help out with the paperwork and removes it entirely from a patient’s path to wellness. from the doctor’s offices for people’s medication.” If you’re tired of lousy customer service, incorrectly

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