PharMerica Corporation

Louisville, KY United States

  (NYSE: PMC)

Company Description

Keeping America's pharmacies stocked is a full-time job for PharMerica, the country's second-largest institutional pharmacy operator (behind Omnicare). The publicly traded company provides purchasing, packaging, and dispensing of prescription and nonprescription drugs to patients at hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other long term care settings in more than 40 states. PharMerica operates about 100 institutional pharmacies from which it packages and delivers medications in unit doses (rather than in bulk) to its customers. It also provides consulting services to skilled nursing and long-term care facilities in which specialists monitor drug usage in accordance with government regulations.