Access Community Health Network Announces Expanded Relationship With Walgreens

Access Community Health Network CEO Donna Thompson today announced new initiatives with Walgreens (NYSE:

) that will help ACCESS fulfill its mission to provide high-quality, accessible health care to residents in underserved communities. Create a pharmacy and therapeutics committee that will provide prescribing guidelines for all ACCESS health centers to help every patient receive cost-effective, high quality drug therapies. Integrate a clinical pharmacy resident with ACCESS' physicians and nurses at one of ACCESS' health centers on Chicago's South Side. Open a pharmacy inside the ACCESS Genesis Center for Health and Empowerment health center in Des Plaines, Ill., which predominantly cares for an underserved Hispanic population.