Guthrie Health First to Offer OTC Products at ScriptCenter® Kiosk

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Asteres Inc., the industry’s leading provider of 24/7 automated pharmacy kiosks, announced today that Guthrie Health is the first hospital pharmacy to offer Over-The-Counter (OTC) products in addition to prescriptions at their ScriptCenter kiosk. Hospitals are installing ScriptCenter to provide a quick and convenient prescription drop-off and pick-up service to hospital employees, especially those who work when the pharmacy is closed. Now, with a selection of top selling OTC items in ScriptCenter, Guthrie employees and patients have 24/7 access to purchase a wide variety of healthcare products.

“Adding our Leader brand OTC's is a big benefit to our employees and clinic patients. Our employees really appreciate the convenience of picking up their prescriptions and OTC’s on all shifts. The ER can now send patients to ScriptCenter saving them an extra trip to the store. Making OTC items available 24/7 for our staff and clinic patients just makes sense,” said Robert Schmidt, System Director of Pharmacy.

For prescription pick up, users enroll at ScriptCenter or ScriptCenter.com to create their log in ID and PIN. For OTC products, no log in is required, so anyone can shop ScriptCenter for the healthcare items they need. ScriptCenter accepts debit, credit and flexible spending cards.

ABOUT ASTERES

Asteres Inc. develops secure self-service kiosks for the storage and delivery of prescriptions and consumer products. Asteres’ premier product is ScriptCenter, the first prescription pick-up kiosk for retail, healthcare and military pharmacies that allows patients to pickup and pay for their prescriptions even when the pharmacy is closed. For more information visit www.asteres.com.

ABOUT GUTHRIE HEALTH

Guthrie Health is a community-based, not-for-profit health care system jointly formed by Guthrie Healthcare System (GHS) and Guthrie Clinic, also not-for-profit health care organizations. GHS provides inpatient, outpatient and home-based services through Corning Hospital, Troy Community Hospital, Robert Packer Hospital, and Guthrie Home Care and Guthrie Hospice. Guthrie Clinic provides primary and specialty physician services at 25 regional clinics. Guthrie Health provides care for 200,000 patients annually within its eleven-county area service area across the northern tier of Pennsylvania and the southern tier of New York.

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