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Thursday, June 3, 2010
St Louis Area Job Openings Created by Express Scripts
A local pharmaceuticals company is helping to create hundreds of St Louis area job openings.
Express Scripts recently opened its new Technology and Innovation Center in St. Louis County near the company's existing corporate headquarters at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The new facility helped to create 300 jobs, while the headquarters employs 4,000 workers.
Missouri-based Express Scripts administers prescription drug programs for health plans, governments and corporations. The company chose to build its new facility in the St. Louis area after receiving $3 million in Missouri BUILD bonds for the project.
The new $60 million pharmacy automation center will be used to dispense 500,000 pills per hour, as well as package and ship up to 110,000 prescriptions per day. The facility has an accuracy rate of more than 99.99 percent, which is higher than the 98.3 percent at retail pharmacies.
"The difference may seem small, but it means that our three home delivery pharmacies nationwide eliminate 2 million drug errors each year as a result of our improved accuracy versus retail," George Paz, chairman, president and CEO of Express Scripts, told the St. Louis Business Journal.
In addition to its high functionality and accuracy rate, the new center also boasts a pilot pharmacy that will be used to test innovative ideas and provide continuous investment in home delivery.
"The pilot pharmacy focuses on improvements in patient safety, service consistency and lowering costs per prescription," Paz added. "It drives the evolution of the pharmacy of the future."
Express Scripts recently opened its new Technology and Innovation Center in St. Louis County near the company's existing corporate headquarters at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The new facility helped to create 300 jobs, while the headquarters employs 4,000 workers.
Missouri-based Express Scripts administers prescription drug programs for health plans, governments and corporations. The company chose to build its new facility in the St. Louis area after receiving $3 million in Missouri BUILD bonds for the project.
The new $60 million pharmacy automation center will be used to dispense 500,000 pills per hour, as well as package and ship up to 110,000 prescriptions per day. The facility has an accuracy rate of more than 99.99 percent, which is higher than the 98.3 percent at retail pharmacies.
"The difference may seem small, but it means that our three home delivery pharmacies nationwide eliminate 2 million drug errors each year as a result of our improved accuracy versus retail," George Paz, chairman, president and CEO of Express Scripts, told the St. Louis Business Journal.
In addition to its high functionality and accuracy rate, the new center also boasts a pilot pharmacy that will be used to test innovative ideas and provide continuous investment in home delivery.
"The pilot pharmacy focuses on improvements in patient safety, service consistency and lowering costs per prescription," Paz added. "It drives the evolution of the pharmacy of the future."
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