Compounding Specialists of Wyoming

200 YEARS OF COMPOUNDING

Although compounding can be traced back to Egyptian times, Compounding Pharmacies have been around America since the early 1800’s, almost as old as our country. Long before manufacturing and the FDA, compounding was the only source of medicine. In 1940 it was estimated that 50% of all Rx’s were compounds. Compounding Pharmacists went into manufacturing as the need for manufacturing grew because of the great demand for prescription drugs. This overshadowed the art of compounding, but compounding continued to grow. Pharmacy owners of the past, like Merck and Dome from Merck Sharp and Dome, Ely Lilly, Warner, Lambert, Smith of Smith Kline and French Labs went on to be manufacturers making many of the drugs we have seen in the 20th century and today.

By the end of the 20th century, compounding was done in every hospital, home healthcare pharmacy in the nation, and at many retail pharmacies. This new specialty in pharmacy has over 5000 compounding pharmacists in the nation in over 2000 licensed compounding pharmacies. Compounding pharmacist’s compound approximately 3% of the 4 billion prescriptions that are filled every year. The demand for custom made prescription medications continues to grow because manufactures can not fullfill the needs of each and every individual patient. More and more physicians are seeing the benefit of custom made compounded products and adding them to their daily prescription protocols.

In the new millennium compounding pharmacies are becoming "Board Certified" by PCAB (Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board www.pcab.org) raising the standards in this specialization of pharmacy. PCAB is supported by the American Pharmacy Association, International Association of Compounding Pharmacies, U.S. Pharmacopea, National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, National Community Pharmacy Association. American College of Pharmacies, National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations and the National Home Infusion Association.

Compounding Specialists of Wyoming was established in 2003 by pharmacy owner,s Tim Renz, Richard Johnson, Scott Soulek, and & Steve Logan, and moved to its current location on East 2nd Street in 2004. Compounding Specialists of Wyoming state of the art compounding pharmacy is staffed with professionally trained pharmacists, technicians and customer service representatives. We use the latest electronic and compounding technology to ensure a quality product and great customer service for our patients. Compounding Specialists of Wyoming supports and is involved in patient and physician education to teach about disease states and how custom made prescription medication may be an alternative in a patient’s treatment plan. Our business philosophy is driven by our devotion to patient care and dedicated to providing the highest quality compounded products for the most reasonable price we can provide.

Over 200 years ago, compounding was the way pharmacies operated in America. Today compounding is still an integral part of pharmacy by compounding custom made prescription drugs and solving individual problems for each of our unique and individual patients.