Publix expands to new turf: Hospitals

LAKELAND — With the opening of in-hospital Publix pharmacies at BayCare, the first piece of a three-part collaboration between Publix and BayCare Health System is in place.

Publix retail pharmacies are now open at St. Anthony's Hospital's Suncoast Medical Clinic in St. Petersburg, St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa and Morton Plant Hospital's new Doyle Tower in Clearwater. Publix pharmacies are also planned at Mease Countryside Hospital in Safety Harbor and Winter Haven Hospital.

“Opening BayCare in-hospital pharmacies is part of the exciting collaboration we announced in March,” says Publix Vice President Fred Ottolino in a statement. “It isn't just about filling prescriptions as patients leave the hospital; it's about providing a continuum of convenient medical care.”