KILMARNOCK—The Northern Neck-Middlesex Free Health Clinic (NNMFHC) expanded its pharmacy services in October by becoming the second “Central Fill” pharmacy serving Rx Partnership. By collaborating with Rx Partnership (RxP), a statewide nonprofit that supports free and charitable clinics, NNMFHC’s Central Fill pharmacy will increase access to medications in Virginia reaching more individuals in underserved areas.
NNMFHC’s first partner clinic, Ledwith-Lewis Free Clinic (LLFC) in Tappahannock, provides medical services but does not have an in-house pharmacy. Ledwith-Lewis patients could struggle to fill prescriptions, but with pharmacy services now provided through NNMFHC about 100 prescriptions a month will be filled for Ledwith-Lewis patients. This is in addition to the 1,100 monthly prescriptions for NNMFHC’s own patient population, 270 of which are filled through RxP.
LLFC is the first of what is anticipated to be many partner clinics benefiting from NNMFHC increasing its pharmacy capacity. NNMFCH chief executive officer Jean Nelson intends to serve two to three additional clinics in….
