Prominent grocery chain and hospital team up to deliver prescriptions bedside

VENICE — A prominent grocery store chain and hospital are teaming up to deliver prescription medications to patients directly to their bedside. 

Publix and Sarasota Memorial Hospital — Venice will make the delivery before a patient is discharged. The hospital, which opens in November, will give patients the option to take part in the delivery service free of charge. A press release states the new service is designed to ease a patient’s transition from being in the hospital to going home.