Rite Aid Foundation awards grant to WVRx
The Rite Aid Foundation has awarded West Virginia Health Right a $15,000 grant to support the WVRx program, a free pharmaceutical program for uninsured West Virginians. Patients can be referred by doctors and pharmacies or by going to www.wvrx.org to apply. -- Angelina Dickson
The Rite Aid Foundation has awarded West Virginia Health Right a $15,000 grant to support the WVRx program. WVRx was created during the 2008 West Virginia legislative session as a non-profit, free pharmaceutical program for uninsured West Virginians. “West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources is aware of our program and is able to refer patrons to us for assistance,” said Program Director Brenda Dane, who also said patients should feel free to call them directly. According to Dane, the primary goal of WVRx is to improve the health status of West Virginians by keeping patients connected to their medication, which she said is a major problem for the uninsured. A recent National Institues of Health study showed that if uninsured patients stayed connected to their medications they went to the emergency room 40 percent less often and had fewer than 60 percent hospitalizations, helping to reduce the overall cost of health care for West Virginians. “Uninsured patients count
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