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Dearborn Heights Pharmacy: Tips for Starting Your Own Local Pharmacy

Dearborn Heights Pharmacy is committed to providing its clients an experience like no other – excellent product knowledge, stellar customer service, and familiarity with customers. If you would like to start your own local pharmacy in your town or city, Nabil Fakih, the owner of Dearborn Heights Pharmacy, offers the following tips: 1. Know why you want to start your own pharmacy. Before starting Dearborn Heights Pharmacy, Nabil Fakih worked at a large chain drugstore – and did not like his experience there. He started looking back to his childhood, when visits to the local pharmacy were always something to look forward to. Despite the risks and regulatory requirements that were at play when he was just starting the pharmacy, Nabil never regretted his decision, saying that his attempts to recreate his childhood pharmacy experiences have been largely successful. 2. Seek advice from people who have been there. The independent pharmacy community is a pretty tight-knit one. You ...

Dearborn Heights Pharmacy: Shortages in Pharmacists in 2020 and Beyond

For the past few years, it has been obvious, especially for pharmacies like Dearborn Heights Pharmacy that the job market for pharmacists has become more competitive and the number of pharmacy schools has raised. Significant shifts have been noticed in the supply and demand and employment projections have done a major turnabout, from projected shortages to an impending surplus. What is the PDI or the Pharmacy Demand Indicator? Dearborn Heights Pharmacy would like to define its purpose simply as an indicator of the perceived demand for pharmacists based on employers’ opinions. It follows a rating scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest and 1 the lowest. The scale is as follows: 5 = High demand: difficult to fill open positions; 4 = Moderate demand: some difficulty filling open positions; 3 = Demand in balance with supply; 2 = Demand is less than the pharmacist supply available; 1 = Demand is much less than the pharmacist supply available. The Pharmacy Demand Indicator or PDI...