200+ years cumulative pharmacy experience
Over 115 years of LTC pharmacy experience
Multiple packaging options
Vials, blister card and pouch packaging in both unit and multi dose
24/7/365 pharmacist availability
Around the clock emergency services
Advanced preparation for influenza season
Including calculations for dosing of prophylactic antivirals
Over 40 delivery departures each day
Plus daily UPS mailings - we can help find a delivery time and method that suits your needs
Location Manager:
Ryan Sunser, PharmD
Kristin Whitaker, PharmD
Pharmacy Manager
2 years with HealthDirect
Our pharmacy managers believe that developing a strong partnership leads to improving the quality of resident care at our clients’ facilities. They strive to create the best teams internally and inspire them to build trust and satisfaction with our clients externally. They bring vision and expertise to lead their pharmacy team in providing the high-quality, customer-focused pharmacy services that our client facilities deserve.
Ryan Sunser, PharmD
Supervising Pharmacist
4 years with HealthDirect
HealthDirect supervising pharmacists are dedicated to providing customer-focused pharmacy solutions and sound business strategies. Our customer facilities experience the difference of pharmacists who are accessible and reliable. Our supervising pharmacists are committed to building strong healthcare relationships. The result is high-quality clinical services—something our customer facilities and their teams use and appreciate.
Maria Kalkinis-Michaels
Assistant Pharmacy Manager
17 years with HealthDirect
HealthDirect assistant pharmacy managers help to ensure pharmacy operations flow smoothly and efficiently. On a daily basis they help with managing work flow, staffing requirements, delivery schedules, and making sure customer needs are being met. They are dedicated, available and always will to step up and help with whatever needs to be done to ensure client satisfaction.
Gretchen Heister, RPH
Pharmacist
24 years with HealthDirect
HealthDirect pharmacist are committed to medication safety and accurate dispensing. Our pharmacists perform assessments of all new resident medication profiles and screen orders for appropriate dosing, interactions, duplicate therapy, allergy and adverse. In addition to clinical review they also perform a financial review to promote cost effective prescribing. Overall it is about optimizing therapy to provide facilities and residents with cost savings and positive outcomes.
Shawn Canarelli
Director of Business Development
4 years with HealthDirect
Our business development directors bring vision, expertise and decades of experience to the HealthDirect team. They understand the importance of personal attention and innovation when it comes to creating trusted partnerships and customized solutions that result in positive outcomes for our clients. Our directors of business development work to build teams that focus on business strategy as well as resident care. They believe our goals should always have care at their core; that it always comes back to care – whether it is business to business or person to person.
Dan Whitehouse
Client Service Specialist
7 years with HealthDirect
The main responsibility of the Client Service Specialist is to serve as a customer advocate within HealthDirect. They are the main point of contact for our clients. Any service need or suggestion can be brought to them and they will coordinate with the appropriate HealthDirect teammates and provide prompt follow-up. Each of our Client Service Specialists brings a strong commitment to providing partner facilities with “Personalized Care. Direct to You.”
Paul Nolan, PharmD
Consultant Pharmacist
14 years with HealthDirect
The HealthDirect Consultant Pharmacists provide clinical services to other healthcare professionals, while also monitoring the medication regimens of long-term care residents. Collaboration and commitment to accuracy help HealthDirect customers improve their process, safety and resident care.
Brandi VanValkenburg
Consulting Pharmacist
14 years with HealthDirect
The HealthDirect Consultant Pharmacists provide clinical services to other healthcare professionals, while also monitoring the medication regimens of long-term care residents. Collaboration and commitment to accuracy help HealthDirect customers improve their process, safety and resident care.