Dan Herbert founds Bremo Pharmacy, beginning as a single store pharmacy in the St. Mary’s Building on Bremo Road. Pioneering a life-saving industry, we became licensed as a fitting center for custom and prescription support hose. Always working to provide you access to difficult-to-find services and products, we became a Diabetic Teaching Center and the first area supplier of blood glucose meters for home use. When few pharmacies offered you access to advanced pharmacy techniques, we became a professional compounding center, and became a member of the Professional Compounding Centers of America. One year after joining our team, R. Keith Kittinger established Metropolitan Pharmacy in downtown Richmond. Metropolitan Pharmacy began its move into the long term care market with a new program designed to serve prescriptions to area adult and group homes. Expanding to offer you an even wider range of services, we took over management of Henrico Professional Pharmacy (also known as Bremo Pharmacy at Henrico Doctors). This location specializes in women’s health services, transplant prescriptions, and a much-loved bedside delivery program. To promote wellness and prevention, Bremo Pharmacy began offering health screenings, including cholesterol testing, in our facilities. We were among the first in the area to offer such a service within a retail pharmacy. We also began offering medication check ups. To ensure the long term care group homes and facilities we serve properly administer our prescriptions, we began offering medication administration training courses for their staff. As part of our goal to provide preventive health care in our community, Bremo Pharmacies began administering flu shots and other vaccinations at the pharmacy. We were one of the first in Virginia to bring this program to a community pharmacy. We pride ourselves on our continued education and wealth of experience. In an effort to share that knowledge with new generations of pharmacists serving our community, we began offering pharmacy technician training courses to students in our area. Metropolitan Pharmacy and its long term care business was relocated to the Cross Roads Shopping Center, where Bremo Pharmacy and our office/training center is located. With the move, Metropolitan’s name changed to Bremo LTC Pharmacy. To ensure quality for our patients, all three locations became accredited by ACHC as durable medical equipment providers. Bremo Pharmacy also became accredited as a sterile compounding pharmacy. To give you access to the most advanced and helpful medication resources, we invested in SyncRx. This service makes it easier to track and fill your prescriptions, even offering free delivery! To meet new federal safety standards under USP Chapter <800>, we remodeled our state-of-the-art compounding center to safely handle and prepare medications classified as hazardous. These regulations were implemented to protect pharmacy staff, patients, caregivers, and the environment by minimizing exposure to potentially harmful ingredients. Throughout 2018 and 2019, we assessed our operations, redesigned our facility, upgraded ventilation and containment systems, trained our team, and updated procedures to ensure full compliance. Completed in late 2019, our renovated compounding lab reflects our continued commitment to safety, quality, and excellence in patient care. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bremo Pharmacy adapted quickly to continue serving our community’s needs. As healthcare demands shifted and access to care became more challenging, we relocated our Henrico Doctors’ Hospital location to our main location site on Staples Mill Road. This move allowed us to expand our services, enhance accessibility, and provide a safer, more centralized space for both patients and staff. Bremo Pharmacy was the first community pharmacy in the region to receive and administer COVID-19 vaccines, with our first hand-delivered shipment from the Virginia Department of Health arriving on December 31, 2020. We quickly began vaccinating frontline workers and vulnerable patients, ultimately delivering thousands of vaccines across the Richmond area. This effort underscored our role as a trusted healthcare partner and our commitment to leading with timely, life-saving care during a critical time. You continue to be our reason for coming to work each day. Moving forward, we will always work to ensure you and our community have access to the best possible care and service.
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We would love to meet you! Please give us a call to learn more about our services at 804-285-7823
Or, just stop in and visit us when you’re free. We’re in the neighborhood.
