{"id":7122,"date":"2021-04-27T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T18:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/?p=7122"},"modified":"2021-04-27T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T18:09:12","slug":"swfl-leaders-volunteer-in-charlotte-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-tampa\/2021\/04\/27\/swfl-leaders-volunteer-in-charlotte-county\/","title":{"rendered":"SWFL Leaders Volunteer in Charlotte County!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/files\/2021\/04\/Virginia-B-Clinic-Front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7123 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/files\/2021\/04\/Virginia-B-Clinic-Front-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Port Charlotte, Fla. is referred to as a \u201clittle city with a big heart.\u201d Mike Klein, president of Guardian Pharmacy SWFL, is a regular volunteer at Virginia B. Andes Community Clinic and Pharmacy (VBA). The mission of the VBA Clinic, under the umbrella of St. Vincent de Paul Community Health care (a 501(c)3), is to provide no-cost episodic medical services and prescription medications to the uninsured and underserved \u00a0of Charlotte County. In addition to the profound impact the VBA Clinic has on saving lives, it also significantly benefits the community by minimizing emergency room visits and expenses at three local hospitals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7124\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/files\/2021\/04\/MK-Virginia-B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7124\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7124\" src=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/files\/2021\/04\/MK-Virginia-B-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Klein and staff<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7125\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/files\/2021\/04\/Virginia-B-Staff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7125\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7125\" src=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/files\/2021\/04\/Virginia-B-Staff-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia B. Clinic volunteers including Tina Klein<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The VBA pharmacy originally opened on May 17, 2000 in conjunction with Punta Gorda\u2019s Sacred Heart Church Conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. It was renamed the Virginia B. Andes Volunteer Community Clinic and Pharmacy in 2009 after Virginia, a longtime community volunteer, generously created an endowment to provide ongoing capital funds. As a volunteer, Mike \u00a0fills prescriptions and helps provide free medications to uninsured and underserved individuals. Mike is committed to help expand access to quality pharmacy care in the community.<\/p>\n<p>The team has worked to establish two sponsored medication sources with Direct Relief and Mission of Hope, enabling them to provide completely free prescriptions and over-the-counter medications to qualified individuals. Mike feels honored to serve with this organization.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7127\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/files\/2021\/04\/Virginia-B.-Andes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7127\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7127\" src=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/files\/2021\/04\/Virginia-B.-Andes-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portrait of Virginia B. Andes, benefactor<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/files\/2021\/04\/Virginia-B-Stones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7126 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/florida\/files\/2021\/04\/Virginia-B-Stones-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Charlotte, Fla. is referred to as a \u201clittle city with a big heart.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sw-florida","wpautop","category-4","category-28","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-tampa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/florida-tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}