Island Drug

History

About Island Drug - as published in America's Pharmacist , a publication of the National Community Pharmacists Association February 2015 by Chris Linville Please click here for full article with pictures as published As a young pharmacist, Aaron Syring, PharmD, saw an entrepreneurial goal come to fruition when he purchased Island Drug in Oak Harbor, Wash. However, within a decade he realized that to grow his business, he would need to expand the pharmacy's footprint. With the variety of health care products and services Syring wanted to provide, space was becoming an issue. At the time the pharmacy was about 7,000 square feet with limited parking. It was located away from the center of Oak Harbor, a town of some 22,000 residents on Whidbey Island, about an hour and a half northwest of Seattle in Puget Sound. So the decision was made to build a new pharmacy from the ground up. Syring, a 2002 Washington State University pharmacy graduate, had a number of items on his wish list.