EIHC initiative will provide high-tech solution to ‘pharmacy desert’

The Eastern Iowa Health Center’s (EIHC) plans for a new, largely automated pharmacy in the heart of its service area will not only help expand the organization’s stated mission — “exceptional health care for all” — but will address the pharmaceutical crisis in southeast Cedar Rapids, created with the closing of the First Avenue Hy-Vee earlier this year.

And not only will the new pharmacy be a…