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There's good reason this pharmacy is only rated at two stars.
Note to Management: you have a pharmacist by the name of LAURA/Lauren who likes to say that she's the manager. Perhaps she is. But she behaves in a most un-managerial fashion and borders on borderline sociopathic in terms of her lack of compassion, professionalism, and care. I've filed a notice with the corporation asking for them to seriously review this particular pharmacist. She has no business working in healthcare or human being wellness on any level.
Like a lot of folk in this area, my prescriptions were transferred to Ralph's without my consent due to Rite Aid going out of business.
Within enough time, literally the day after the transfer happened, I went in person to this Walgreens as it was the closest. I tried calling, but of course got redirected to their perky, automated message that wasn't allowing human being to speak to human beings about their healthcare rights while Walgreens benefited from Rite Aid's misfortune.
Stood online for - I'm not making this up - 50 minutes. Got to a young gent at the front who was kind, and I explained that I was currently in treatment for radiation, and had a few prescriptions I would need to figure out. He seemed lost and a bit overwhelmed,
I asked if I could speak to a manager.
This was my first encounter with LAURA who was present, but hardly friendly. I explained to her carefully that my healthcare had shifted this year and it was now under my maiden name, but a lot of my prescriptions from Rite Aid/Ralphs would reflect another name. I provided all of the documentation, a printout of my recent prescriptions, and appropriate identification so that they could accurately ensure that my prescriptions transferred over.
I explained to her that it was important to get done due to my healthcare, and asked when they would be able to get this done.
She assured me within 48 hours, I should receive a call that the first prescription would be ready.
I figured as she was the manager, and I shared it was important, that she would care and follow up.
3 days go by and I call and ask for LAURA. She gets on the phone after a minute and I ask the status of my prescriptions. I provide my name, date of birth, and phone number.
I'm nowhere in the system. So despite having a heart-to-heart, waiting online for close to an hour, Laura hadn't bothered to input my information.
Obviously, I'm not happy - and she does not apologize, but Just says they've been super busy because of the transferring going on. I say I understand they are understaffed and making out like a bandit because of Rite Aid's misfortune, but that should not affect peoples health.
She doesn't like the fact that this is true, but tells me she'll get it done in the next 24 hours.
I ask her to have someone call if any problems so that I can get into it with Ralph's to sort out the difficulty myself. I give her my number again and I ask if we will have a problem with me being in the system in 24 hours.
She assures me she will get it done, and my hope is she will keep her word this time.
Meanwhile, I call a local upscale pharmacy with slightly shorter hours, one of those independent pharmacies that has a 4.9 rating on Google. That would be ELEMENTS in Studio City.
They get my prescription done in one day even tho I haven't had a heart-to-heart in person and even though they're dealing with the same Ralph's to get transfers done!
No surprise: I never hear from Laura, never hear from Walgreens, and after 4 weeks still have not gotten one notification that any of the prescriptions were filled.
Again, I've filed with the corporation that they do a serious review of this pharmacist who could care less about people's well-being and is in it strictly for the paycheck. She should not be working at a pharmacy.
Highly recommend anyone in this area move over ELEMENTS in Studio City - they've literally got 3 pharmacist on staff throughout the day, tons of parking, and it's an upbeat experience where you only wait online for two minutes. read more