Health Wagon Welcomes Dr. Kristin Glover, PharmD, BCACP to St. Mary’s Faith Pharmacy

(Wise, Va.)—Dr. Kristin Glover, PharmD, BCACP, is a board-certified ambulatory care pharmacist with more than 18 years of experience across community pharmacy, clinical patient care, and pharmacy leadership. She brings a rare combination of advanced clinical knowledge, pharmacy management experience, regulatory expertise, and direct patient care, with a background spanning medication therapy management, chronic disease care, obesity and metabolic care, immunization services, patient counseling and education, and collaboration with other healthcare providers.

Dr. Glover, PharmD, BCACP is joining The Health Wagon’s St. Mary’s Faith Pharmacy as Director of Pharmacy Services/Pharmacist-in-Charge, where she will help support safe, compliant, and compassionate pharmacy services for uninsured, underinsured, and medically underserved patients in Southwest Virginia.

A Southwest Virginia pharmacist and healthcare provider, she is passionate about improving access to high-quality care, promoting medication safety, and serving patients with dignity, compassion, and clinical excellence.

She received her Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) from Appalachian College of Pharmacy in May 2008 and her Board Certification in Ambulatory Care Pharmacy (BCACP) from the Board of Pharmacy Specialties in December 2023.

Pharmacy Connect Brings in Almost $20 million in brand name medications

“Pharmacy Connect is a patient assistance program conducted in cooperation with the drug companies,” said Health Wagon CEO Teresa Tyson, DNP.“Through this program Health Wagon gets brand name medications at no cost to patients that qualify. Over the past 17 years, we have provided over $20 million in lifesaving medications through the Pharmacy Connect Program in association with MEOC and the Virginia Health Care foundation. This program will be continued through the pharmacy and will offer additional medication services to patients. The opening of the pharmacy in 2024 was a natural evolution of the success of this program and was made possible by a beloved donor and several caring pharmaceutical programs that help free pharmacies.”

About St. Mary’s Faith Pharmacy:

St. Mary’s Faith Pharmacy provides free and charitable pharmaceutical services to the community. Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of individuals by ensuring access to essential medications, promote health education and to deliver compassionate and transformative care to those in need.

About The Health Wagon:

The Health Wagon is a nurse practitioner-managed clinic established in 1980 that provides free medical, dental, vision, and specialty healthcare services throughout Southwest Virginia, including Lee, Scott, Wise, Dickenson, Buchanan, Washington, and Russell counties and the City of Norton.

For more information, visit www.thehealthwagon.org or call 276-328-8850. Donations may be made at www.thehealthwagon.org/donate.