{"id":260729,"date":"2026-08-07T01:50:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260729\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T01:50:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:50:54","slug":"lecom-opens-fourth-colonial-family-pharmacy-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260729\/","title":{"rendered":"LECOM opens fourth Colonial Family Pharmacy location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new addition onto LECOM\u2019s Rural Health Clinic of Wattsburg is bringing even more care to families in the area.<\/p>\n<p>LECOM held a ribbon cutting to officially open the fourth Colonial Family Pharmacy location off of Wattsburg Road, an addition built off of the health clinic.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/digital-first\/digital-exclusive\/west-nile-virus-found-in-mosquito-sample-in-mercer-county\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tWest Nile virus found in mosquito sample in Mercer County\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The facility gives local families better access to medications and other necessities for health.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said that access to care is what drives the project, keeping trips to the pharmacy quick, convenient and safe for nearby patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey no longer have to drive from Wattsburg, Greene Township, into the City of Erie or even to Harborcreek to pick up their medications. This provides a convenient access location where they can get the drugs that they need,\u201d said COO of LECOM\u2019s medical center Marcus Babiak.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers hope the pharmacy serves families by providing what they need, all just a short drive away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new addition onto LECOM\u2019s Rural Health Clinic of Wattsburg is bringing even more care to families in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-260729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}