Kroger Health, Albertsons, Randalls and Tom Thumb pharmacies and pharmacists were honored at the Dallas County (Texas) Medical Society’s 139th Annual Dinner and Awards ceremony on April 6. The Society recognized their efforts at the beginning of the pandemic to provide 20,000 COVID-19 vaccinations to physicians and their frontline office staff not affiliated with a major health or hospital system.
This successful collaborative effort eventually led to multiple other opportunities throughout the pandemic for more chain pharmacies to work directly with the Collin, Dallas, Denton, Grayson and Tarrant County Health Departments to administer COVID vaccines and tests.
Accepting the awards were Jeff Loesch, PharmD, The Kroger Company, and Jennifer Golden, PharmD, Albertsons Companies. Others pictured here include Dr. Philip Huang, director, Health Authority, Dallas County Health and Human Services Department; Jon Roth, CEO, Dallas County Medical Society; Jill Lester, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, The Kroger Company; and Emad Besslay, MPharm; Albertsons.
