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Low on testosterone? No problem
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content oAfter losing 60 pounds in the fall of 2009, Dave Smith figured his energy level would improve.
He didn't feel right — "just lethargy, feeling run-down, not sleeping well."
Smith, a former vice and narcotics officer in Colorado Springs, had hit 280 pounds before getting weight-loss help at Omaha's Preventative Medical Clinic of Kohll's. A thinner Smith returned to the clinic, described his symptoms and got a blood test, which showed he had low levels of testosterone.
The levels were low enough, he said, "that we decided to try the hormone replacement therapy."
That was in the spring of 2010. He started weekly, self-administered injections in his shoulder muscle soon afterward.
The effects weren't immediate.
"It's a gradual thing," Smith said. "By the third or fourth week, I actually felt something is really helping here. I certainly felt like I was sleeping better and waking up with more energy.
"There was probably a little less libido at the start of it," he said. "I guess I would say that that's turned around."
Testosterone is a hormone that helps maintain bone density, muscle strength, red blood cells, sperm production and sex drive. Doctors say the level in men starts to decline around age 30. "Despite that," said Dr. Brian Boerner, an Omaha endocrinologist, "most men will maintain normal testosterone levels even late in life."
Testosterone replacement therapy "has really been hitting the medical mainstream over the last year," said Sara Legleiter, a nurse practitioner at the Preventative Medical Clinic. (You may have noticed the clinic's "Low T" ads in this newspaper.) The clinic has treated well over 200 men in that time, she said.
The men who seek treatment, Legleiter said, complain of low energy, fatigue, problems concentrating and a reduced libido. Some note that they have been working out at the gym but seem to lose muscle mass. "They really don't like that," she said.
The men's blood work will show whether they have low testosterone levels, Legleiter said. After treatment begins, the men must come in every three months to have their levels checked.
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Kohll’s Pharmacy Debuts The Preventative Medical Clinic
Kohll’s Pharmacy Debuts The Preventative Medical Clinic
Kohll’s Pharmacy Debuts The Preventative Medical Clinic by Leah Parodi
(Article from Omaha Family Magazine)
Kohll’s Pharmacy and Homecare has been a staple in Omaha since the family owned business opened its doors in 1948. Kohll’s is regarded as one of the area’s leading providers of pharmaceutical supplies, home medical equipment, flu shots and vaccinations. And now Kohll’s has expanded to include a new division. Kohll’s Preventative Medical Clinic will offer services from skin care and dermal fillers to medically-supervised weight loss programs. Additional services include micro-dermabrasion, waxing, and oxygen facials.Walking into the Kohll’s Millard Plaza location at 127th and Q Streets you get the feeling of being in a contemporary day spa. There is fun and funky furniture in the waiting area and the shelves are lined with cosmetics and skin care products. But the private rooms for services are warm and cozy with candles, soft blankets and a Zen like atmosphere. The difference at Kohll’s is that the services are provided by medical experts to provide the utmost in care.
Omaha-based pharmacy & healthcare company adds location in Malvern, Iowa
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OMAHA, Neb. – Kohll’s Pharmacy & Homecare, based out of Omaha, Neb., has purchased a location in Malvern, Iowa, as the site of its next store. Owners purchased the property, located on Main Street, on April 4th.
Kohll’s, independent, and family-owned, has been in business since 1948 and has seven locations in Omaha/Papillion as well as one location in Boulder, Colo. The decision to open in a small town was made because of the opportunity to grow not only out of Malvern, but to also serve the healthcare needs of other southwest Iowa communities.
David Kohll was approached approximately three years ago by various Malvern residents as well as the community physician, Dr. Baer, to open a Kohll’s in Malvern when Malvern’s local pharmacist closed his doors.
“I think this is a good move for our company. There is a great need for Kohll’s products and services not only in Malvern, but much of southwest Iowa,” said Kohll. “These communities are underserved for what we offer and we feel we can provide a unique service for the residents.”
“Having Kohll’s Pharmacy in Malvern will absolutely benefit the community. We know how hard it is to be without a local pharmacy, and we are ready to support the new pharmacy. Not only will this be good for Malvern, but also southwest Iowa because of all the diverse medical equipment Kohll’s offers; from mobility and respiratory equipment to diabetes care,” said Dr. Thomas Baer, a family practitioner in Malvern and Glenwood, Iowa.
The director of the Malvern location will be Christen Mick, a pharmacist and University of Nebraska Medical Center graduate, who has been with Kohll’s for five years. Mick’s family is originally from Southwest Iowa.
“I’m excited to be part of the growth of the Malvern pharmacy and to be able to provide healthcare services for not just Malvern, but the many communities nearby,” said Mick.
Kohll’s Malvern location will include a pharmacy, home medical equipment including respiratory, mobility equipment and diabetic supplies, as well as a preventative medical clinic offering bio-identical hormone replacement therapy for men and women, aesthetic services such as Botox and Juvederm and medically supervised weight loss programs.
Kohll’s expects to be open for business in Malvern the first part of July, 2011.
Kohll’s Essential Pharmacy Compounding provides help nation-wide
Hormone Therapy Helps Control Weight
A diet supplemented by female hormones produced during pregnancy, can help people trying to lose weight.
Helping Animals Take Their Meds
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Zoos use food-flavored medicine to help sick animals get better.
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Kohll's to support ALS's annual walk
The ALS of the Heartland does a great job supporting families and those that have ALS. In addition ALS of the Heartland trusts Kohll’s as a primary provider for their patients. Please consider forming a team and/or participating in their Walk.
Join us in support of the ALS in the Heartland 2011 Nebraska Community Walk
Kohll’s Pharmacy & Homecare to expand Park Avenue location through acquisition of Sheri's Night Club
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Kohll's Pharmacy & Homecare
Located on 2923 Leavenworth St, Downtown Omaha
OMAHA, Neb. – Kohll’s Pharmacy & Homecare purchased the building and land at 2909 Leavenworth Street in late January, 2011. The building, now Sheri’s Go-Go Club, is remembered by many Omahans when it was the Walking Cane Bar from the 1960s to 1990. Currently, there is a Kohll’s Pharmacy located next to Sheri’s Club at 2923 Leavenworth Street. Kohll’s has been at this location since 1948 and is a cornerstone of the Park Avenue neighborhood.
Kohll’s Pharmacy & Homecare is locally owned and operated by Marvin, Justin and David Kohll. With the inclusion of the 2909 Leavenworth Street property, the Kohlls plan to expand parking for the pharmacy and update the current structure of Kohll’s Pharmacy & Homecare. Sheri’s Go-Go Club will stay open until September, 2011 at the latest, at which time Kohll’s will begin improvements to the area.
The Park Avenue area is defined by Harney Street on the north, I-480 on the east, Woolworth Avenue on the south, 32nd Street to Pacific Street and 33rd Street from Pacific to Harney on the west. This area was developed as a streetcar line neighborhood, with higher density housing and neighborhood commercial development at major intersections. The streetcars have gone away, but the neighborhood is still a major thoroughfare for the downtown/midtown areas. The neighborhood, however, needs revitalization and aesthetic improvements.
The Kohlls plan to increase street appeal and help to improve the image of the neighborhood with plush landscaping and by adding a new facade to the current Kohll’s Pharmacy building. Constructing a new building is also a possibility. The updated building and landscaping will help to create a sense of place for neighborhood residents and ensure a family-friendly environment, while helping the neighborhood achieve a dramatically improved state of health.
Improvements and expansion should strengthen the entrance to the Park Avenue neighborhood. The success of long-time businesses such as Kohll’s Pharmacy & Homecare and newer businesses like El Buen Pan and El Alteno indicate a stable and growing market that can support neighborhood-oriented services.
This major corridor at 29th & Leavenworth Streets will provide an attractive public environment that increases user comfort and security and encourages related private investment. Commercial development will add texture, activity and economic opportunity to the Park Avenue area and is a community priority. Kohll’s is proud to be a key player in the revitalization of the neighborhood in which Kohll’s was founded by Louis and Leona Kohll in 1948.
Zoos' pharmacy of choice
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Lipizzaner Stallions with respiratory problems, circus elephants with joint pain, tigers trying to get pregnant.
You won't see them walking into Kohll's Pharmacy & Homecare for inhalers, ibuprofen and in vitro fertilization, but they're patients nonetheless.
Kohll's operates the largest compounding lab in the Midlands for exotic animal drugs and one of the largest in the Midwest for horse medications. Its customers include veterinarians and about a dozen zoos around the country, including the Henry Doorly, San Diego and Denver Zoos.
No government agency or professional group keeps statistics on the number of animal compounding pharmacies, but zoo officials know of only 10 or so in the country that do significant work with exotic animals.
Drug compounding, for people and animals, is big business, generating about $12 billion a year for U.S. pharmacies, hospitals, and cancer and surgical centers, said Loyd V. Allen Jr., editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding.
“It is particularly valuable to us,” said Dr. Doug Armstrong, a veterinarian at the Omaha zoo.
Veterinarians, like physicians, usually prescribe drugs that are manufactured by major pharmaceutical firms. But if those medications aren't mass-produced, or the dosages, flavors or forms don't meet a particular animal's needs, vets turn to compounding labs.
It takes creativity — and sometimes a run to the supermarket for canned salmon and tuna — to get large zoo animals to take oral medications.
“You can't walk up to a hippo and hand them a medicine to eat,” said Justin Kohll, co-owner of the company and a pharmacist.
Kohll's has made alfalfa-flavored amoxicillin for hippos and fish-flavored dewormer for polar bears.
“You want to make it as stinky as possible,” Kohll said.
One project at the Omaha zoo involved Kohll's creating a slow-release hormone gel for tigers to help zoo officials stimulate egg production to use with in vitro fertilization, said Naida Loskutoff, director of reproductive sciences at the zoo. Unfortunately, the gel had to be administered through blow dart, which dispersed the gel and reduced its effectiveness, Loskutoff said.
Tigers can be injected several days in a row while awake or put under anesthesia and injected once with the hormone, but those options can be stressful to the animals, Loskutoff said.
“So far it hasn't worked, but we'll keep trying,” Loskutoff said of the gel project. “Kohll's is always very willing and interested to help us.”
Robert Hilsenroth, executive director of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, said compounding is essential, because large pharmaceutical companies can't invest the time and resources necessary to produce specialty drugs for the relatively small number of zoo animals.
“There's not enough money in those smaller amounts of drugs. It's different if the drugs are used for 100 million dogs,” he said.
For example, of the 11,000 mammals, fish, birds, amphibians and reptiles at the Henry Doorly Zoo, only about 40 might be on medication at any one time, either for chronic conditions or for injuries and other short-term problems, officials said.
Kohll said setting up a compounding lab requires about $500,000 in equipment. The price of special-order medicines for exotic animals varies widely, from $150 for polar bear dewormers to $15,000 for a drug that kills tapeworms in sharks.
That might sound like an exorbitant amount, but zoo officials feel morally obligated to treat ill animals regardless of the cost, said Dr. Jenny Waldoch, another vet at the Omaha zoo.
“We have a responsibility to these animals,” she said. “We brought them here and we take care of them. And we're pretty attached to some of them.”
Exotic animals generally are healthy, but special long-term medications can be needed for problems like cardiac disease. And like people, some older animals develop joint pain or arthritis, Waldoch said.
Vets diagnose problems during annual or every-other-year exams, or checkups done routinely before zoo residents are transported anywhere. Zoo workers also act as the vets' eyes and ears, noting changes in behavior, such as irritability, lack of eating or inactivity, that signal illnesses.
Sick animals are similar to young children who can't say what's wrong but become fussy or hold their stomachs, Waldoch said.
“For animals, they might stretch differently, or not move around as much, curling up in the corner of the exhibit. It's the same with cats or dogs at home.”
Waldoch's latest patient is a lemur named Rhea with diabetes.
Two drugs often prescribed for people with early-stage diabetes, glipizide and metformin, have been given to Rhea in smaller doses, with fruit flavoring to encourage her to eat them, Waldoch said.
Kohll's pharmacists knew exactly which flavoring and pill size would work, she said.
“We aren't pharmacists,” Waldoch said of veterinarians. “They (pharmacists) have better ideas about what will work with this pill, get it to the right concentration, what to mix it with. It's their area of expertise.”
Medicating a small lemur is one thing, but tigers are quite another.
Vets don't like to tranquilize even large dangerous animals because it can cause stress, Kohll said. So zookeepers often train them to, for example, walk through a cage — where a shot is administered — in return for a treat.
Some medicines can be mixed into food they like, he added.
Kohll's expanded into animal medicine in 1993 after Kohll attended a conference on compounding in Houston.
The 49-year-old pharmacist said he is an animal lover who grew up with guinea pigs, gerbils, snakes and dogs. His only pet now is a chocolate Lab named Bo. Until a few years ago, he owned two horses and fox-hunted them. He also owns a racehorse, a Thoroughbred named Big Lou.
When he returned from the Houston conference, Kohll contacted the Ak-Sar-Ben racetrack and the Henry Doorly Zoo. Their veterinarians responded positively, inviting Kohll to join them on their rounds.
He still remembers those visits.
“I dressed in a white shirt and jeans. No tie. I might have been a little overdressed.
“They wear boots. They're walking through horse crap, they're in barns,” he said of racetrack vets.
Kohll learned that the Omaha area lacked a pharmacy that could formulate medicine for horses with joint pain, or to prevent internal bleeding, or to euthanize animals that broke legs or suffered some other extreme injury.
“Every time I went to a vet I walked away with an order, 90 percent of the time. They had so many needs. It was a nice niche to have.”
As they became necessary, Kohll purchased sterile filters, freeze-drying equipment and books and other materials about treatments and flavors for animals.
“Birds like fruit flavors, cats like fish flavors and dogs like anything,” Kohll said.
Kohll hired more pharmacists and had them attend conferences and go into the field with veterinarians so they had a rounded view of the business. “Some just couldn't figure it out. They couldn't problem-solve. We have a great staff now.”
Kohll said he never thought about becoming a veterinarian, however, partly because the pharmacy business was in the family.
The Essential Pharmacy Compounding division, which employs four pharmacists, operates from the company's 620 N. 114th St. location in the Miracle Hills shopping area. The lab, equipped with medicine, beakers, work stations and wood cupboards and gray countertops, is about 2,000 square feet. Pharmacists wear white lab coats and gloves, hairnets and face masks as necessary. One large white room is equipped to handle sterile materials.
A privately owned company with seven stores in the metro area and one in Boulder, Colo., Kohll's doesn't release financial details.
Making drugs for horses and domestic and exotic animals accounts for about one-third of the compounding division's yearly revenue. The remainder comes from special-order drugs for people, including chemotherapy medications for cancer patients and bioidentical hormone therapy.
Kohll's ships horse medications to veterinarians nationwide and to Thoroughbred owners at more than 150 racetracks, including Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., home of the Kentucky Derby.
Dr. Lowell Smalley, an Omaha equine veterinarian and consultant, has been a client for years. For example, when Smalley needed help for a horse suffering from a syndrome that inhibits shedding and causes foot pain, he turned to Kohll's.
“This horse has been off and on this product for a couple of years, and it does control the syndrome,” Smalley said.
There are other compounding pharmacists around the country, Smalley said, but he likes Kohll's.
“Justin is very exacting.”
Kohll said the need for compounded drugs is growing, as veterinarians and medical doctors become more adept at devising drugs and dosages to target health problems and specific size, weight and other characteristics. But Kohll's is licensed to ship to all 50 states, so establishing another compounding lab is unlikely, he said.
It has been a satisfying career, Kohll said.
“There are so many specialties in pharmacy you can get into: hospitals, nuclear medicine, compounding. I like where I'm at.”
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Kohll featured on globally syndicated talk-show: How to Select and Get Great Value from a Good Pharmacy
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Click the play button below to listen to David Kohll's interview from "Clint's Cures," a globally syndicated talk-show. Kohll discusses how to select and get great value from a good pharmacy. Show bio - Whether you’re filling a prescription at the local pharmacy or have a family member in a healthcare facility, assuring there are no medication errors is a prime concern. We’ll discuss questions to ask your pharmacy to determine if you are receiving the best advice and quality service available. In addition, we will address whether generic drugs are as good as name brands, as well as what questions to ask about medication management when you have a loved one in a healthcare facility setting. Our guests this week are David Kohll, co-owner and pharmacist of Kohll's Pharmacy & Homecare and Mark Keffeler, President and CEO of RX Care Assurance. |
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Kohll's CEU Sessions and a Special Visit to New Cassel
Kohll's Pharmacy & Homecare invited occupational therapists, physical therapists, social workers, and students to attend a series of Continuing Education Courses at our Millard branch on June 2, and June 3. Nearly 100 professionals attended the 2010 event. Professionals heard from a variety of experts on a host of different topics, ranging from Medicare billing to mobility devices new to the healthcare market. Healthcare professionals and Kohll's employees alike benefited from the vast amount of infomtation given during the courses. Kohll's thanks everyone who attended, please call us with any feedback at 402-408-1990.
Kohll's Pharmacy & Homecare made a special visit to the New Cassel Retirement Center on May 26, for a Health Fair. Kohll's pharmacists and healthcare professionals conducted a variety of health related services and screenings including wheelchair safety classes and fall safety prevention. If you are interested in having Kohll's Pharmacy & Homecare conduct a health fair at your organization please call 402-408-1990.
