Did you know that over 200,000 people are hospitalized each year due to flu related illnesses? Protect yourself! Stop in to Lehan Drugs as we are currently administering the flu vaccine at both our Dekalb and Sycamore locations during all regular business hours. Appointments are not required. See you soon!
http://www.lehandrugs.com/pharmacy/vaccinations.html
Yours in Health,
The Team @ Lehan Drugs
Did you know that over 200,000 people are hospitalized each year due to flu related illnesses? Protect yourself! Stop in to Lehan Drugs as we are currently administering the flu vaccine at both our Dekalb and Sycamore locations during all regular business hours. Appointments are not required. See you soon!
http://www.lehandrugs.com/pharmacy/vaccinations.html
Yours in Health,
The Team @ Lehan Drugs
Did you know that over 200,000 people are hospitalized each year due to flu related illnesses? Protect yourself! Stop in to Lehan Drugs as we are currently administering the flu vaccine at both our Dekalb and Sycamore locations during all regular business hours. Appointments are not required. See you soon!
http://www.lehandrugs.com/pharmacy/vaccinations.html
Yours in Health,
The Team @ Lehan Drugs
Check out all of the events and sales we have going on in October! 20% off a single compression item or Women’s Health Department all month long as well as other events and sales throughout the month!
To see all the details, click the image below or download pdf.
We currently have two openings for Pharmacy Technicians that we would like to fill immediately! We are looking for energetic, team oriented individuals to fit in with our staff. If you or someone you know is interested in these positions, please have them fill out the job application here and send it or drop it off to our DeKalb location at 1407 S. 4th St.
Yours in Health,
The Team at Lehan Drugs
We wanted to take a minute to thank everyone who came to our Customer Appreciation Event on July 19th and made it such a great event. It was fantastic to see so many of our customers, friends, local businesses, and even former employees! We would also like to thank the businesses who participated in the event including Inboden’s, Creative Therapeutics, Water Works, Sunshine Scoope Shop and Bakery, and WLBK for broadcasting the event!
Make sure to remember to spend your $2 bills at a locally owned business and support our local community!
Enjoy some of the pictures from Thursday!
That’s right, we are going to give away 500 $2 bills to the first 500 people who come into our DeKalb location ($1,000!) during our Customer Appreciation Day on July 19th, but only if the recipient will promise to spend it at another locally owned business in the community.
Business owner and pharmacist, Tim Lehan originally wanted to try and educate our employees as well as our customers and patients about supporting locally owned businesses in DeKalb County. Last December, he ordered 2,500 $2.00 bills from his local bank, National Bank and Trust Co. He then gave each of our fifty employees $100 of the bills with specific instructions on how they had to be spent. First, the $2 bills had to be spent as cash, not deposited in an account. Second, they had to be spent at a locally owned business in DeKalb County. Finally, all of the money had to be spent within 30 days, and if anyone asked about the 2 dollar bills, they had to explain the program.
“I wanted to help my employees, help locally owned businesses and hopefully encourage other business owners and leaders in our community to support each other,” Lehan said. “We have incredible people working for us and incredible patients supporting our pharmacies in DeKalb County. It is important to differentiate between a local business and a locally owned business. A corporate owned store like Wal-Mart and Walgreens send all of their profits to their headquarters outside of our community each night. A locally owned business keeps that money in the local economy. “We live here, our kids went to school here and every dollar stays here in DeKalb County. The national companies can’t say that. If we are going to have strong cities and towns we need strong locally owned businesses.”
That is where the $2.00 bills come in. “We only receive 1 or 2 $2.00 bills a month in our pharmacies,” said Lehan. “By using these uncommon bills, we can see if our program is working. We hope other local businesses who receive them will in turn give them as change, and maybe request some of their own from their bank. We ask that the citizens of our community spend them at another locally owned business.”
Come in to our DeKalb location from 9am-7pm on July 19th to receive your $2 bill and help keep the local business community strong! Vist our website at www.lehandrugs.com for all we have to offer!
The next time you put on sunscreen, take a look at the label. Seriously, look at the list of active ingredients. Chances are you won’t even be able to pronounce most of the chemicals that are on there! The Environmental Working Group, a consumer watchdog, and many other toxicology experts believe that many of these chemicals (such as common ingredient oxybenzone) may be linked to hormone disruption and potentially to cell damage that could increase your risk of skin cancer.
Because of these potential issues, we have started to carry an all-natural, chemical free sunscreen option for you and your family. Badger Balm Sunscreen has received the highest rating from the Envirnmental Working Group and we are proud to carry their line of products!
For the entire month of July we have a buy 2 get 1 free deal on all Badger products so come in and try them today!
Download the PDF for more information on this product!
We are excited to announce that we will be holding a History Celebration Event on June 14th from 4-6pm inside our DeKalb location at 1407 S 4th St. We would like to take this time to thank all of our customers along with our current and former employees for helping us to serve our community for more than 65 years!
There will be a surprise unveiling, along with refreshments and lots of time to reminisce! We look forward to seeing you there!
New Pharmacist Robert Taylor
We wanted to take a minute to introduce you to, Robert Taylor, the newest addition to the Lehan’s team of pharmacists! Starting in the spring of 2012, Robert is now the pharmacy manager at Lehan Drugs @ The Dekalb Clinic. He is very excited about working in independent pharmacy again, and Robert looks forward to continuing the level of patient care that patients have come to expect from Lehan Drugs. Robert replaced Jon Lehan who recently opened his own compounding pharmacy in Rockford – Rock Valley Compounding Pharmacy.
Robert graduated at the top of his pharmacy class from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 2005. Robert grew up on a farm near Enid, OK and is no stranger to independent pharmacy practice. He worked throughout his college years for two different locally owned pharmacies and enjoyed an emphasis on compounding even then. The summer before his last year of pharmacy school, Robert, by chance, chose a pharmacy internship program in Milwaukee, WI. There he met his future wife Sarah (Haeseker) who was also in pharmacy school but at Drake University in Des Moines. After marrying in Iowa and spending a few years in his native Oklahoma, Robert and Sarah started a family in 2009 with the birth of their son George, moving back to Sarah’s hometown of De Kalb the following spring. Sarah had of course known of the Lehans growing up just down the street from their fourth street location and also by making their pharmacy one of her experiential rotations while in pharmacy school. Soon after moving back to De Kalb, Sarah started working part time at the Lehan’s clinic pharmacy but also kept her full time job raising George. Now that Robert has joined her and the Lehan’s family, they are very excited to be working together and are looking forward to getting to know all the customers that have supported Lehans over the past sixty-five years.
Being a dutiful husband, Robert has happily joined Sarah in rooting for the Chicago Bears on Sundays, but he will always be an OU Sooner fan first, attending their football games whenever they play in the Midwest. And while, Robert was at the top of his class in college, Sarah is at the top of their pharmacy household, she had better grades than him.
We are ecstatic to have Robert join our healthcare team!
March is DVT Awareness Month, so once again we want to emphasize the importance of taking steps to prevent a blood clot, such as a DVT (deep vein thrombosis) a blood clot in a deep vein, which could lead to a pulmonary embolism (the lodging of a blood clot in the main artery of the lung). According to the National Blood Clot Alliance, between 350,000-600,000 venous blood clots occur every year in the U.S, and about one third of all blood clots are fatal.
In support of DVT Awareness Month, we’re offering our online followers some excellent sales on all compression socks (excluding insurance sales) through April 15th. Our certified fitters will make sure you find just the right style and size to meet your lifestyle needs (dressy/casual/athletic performance) and maximize your DVT prophylaxis. Mention “DVT Awareness Month” at the register and receive:
Serena Williams’ recent scare with a pulmonary embolism inadvertently brought attention to this dangerous condition and its ability to affect anyone, including athletes! In fact, athletes are often at a higher risk of developing a DVT because of their lower resting heart rates and slower blood flow rates, especially when they are traveling long distances. Williams’ ankle injury combined with immobilization in a walking boot and a long airline flight across the country most likely caused the DVT, resulting in a pulmonary embolism.
Warning signs of a DVT include swelling (usually of one leg), leg pain/tenderness, leg warm to touch, and/or reddish or bluish skin discoloration.
Warning signs of PE include sudden shortness of breath, sharp chest pain that may worsen with a deep breath, rapid heart rate, and/or unexplained cough, sometimes with bloody mucus.
To help prevent blood clots:
As we noted last year around this time, risk factors include:
It’s always a good idea to talk to your doctor about DVT prophylactic measures, especially if you have a family history of blood clots, following major surgery, or if you exhibit any of the above risk factors and will be traveling long distances.
Please feel free to call us at 815-758-0911 or email info@lehandrugs.com if you have any questions at all! We are always more than happy to help.
This story was written by Tom Brewer, whose mother worked at the original Lehan Drugs’ location when it was a Walgreen’s Agency store. Enjoy!!!
THE DAY MR WALGREEN CAME TO TOWN
It was 1947. Harry S Truman was in the White House, World War II was over and our boys were back from Europe and the Pacific, and my Mother was a bookkeeper for Lehan Drug Store in DeKalb, Illinois. Me? I was a four year old boy who already had an addiction to comic books. I also had the run of the store while my mother was working. Generally, that was running from the comic book rack in the front of the store to the upstairs office to look at the “funnies”.
Lehan Drugs was quite a progressive store in 1947. The Lehan brothers, Jim and Emery, had remodeled their store into one of the first self-service drug stores in the country. Even the Walgreen chain was still clerk served. Clerk served, or conventional, drug stores meant that when you wanted to buy Carter’s Little Liver Pills, Chantilly perfume and Old Gold cigarettes you asked the clerk for these items and she would flit around the store and retrieve them from the display cases. She’d wrap them up, take your money, and make your change. The Walgreen Chain was aware of this radical drug store merchandising concept and were quite interested to see it in action.
Mr. Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. made an appointment to visit the Lehan Drug Store and the Lehan brothers went to work in preparation. Bud, the stockman, lined up the warehouse, and even the restaurant manager, Cookie, put on a clean apron for the occasion. I was the only one thinking about ball point pens.
Ball point pens were a new invention. They were fat things, about the size of a man’s thumb, and were as likely to leak on your shirt as to make a mark on paper. And I wanted one. When a business man returned a leaker, the clerk replaced it, throwing the old pen into the waste basket. Not to miss my chance, when no one was looking I fished the prize from the trash and put it in my pocket. Of course, my shirt soon had a large black spot and my chest did as well.
Mom rushed me to the pharmacy as soon as she saw the stain; ink might be poisonous. She and the pharmacist washed me up with Walgreen’s Tincture of Green Soap and finished with me just as Mr. Walgreen and his entourage walked in. She grabbed some comic books and took me to the office. We found that other people had brought comic books to the office for me, too. Keep the little guy out from underfoot, you know. Mom waited to be called to meet with the visitors, they inspected the store, and I read.
Soon, my mother was called downstairs and curiosity got the best of me. I snuck down the back stairwell, through the kitchen, and peaked out the double doors into the restaurant. I could see them in the largest booth; the Lehan brothers, three men in identical blue suits and polished black shoes, and my mother with her big ledger book. I immediately knew who Mr. Walgreen was; he looked just like my favorite uncle Wilbur.
Curiosity gone, I returned to the office and lost myself in the world of Mickey, Donald, and Pluto; only stopping occasionally to smell my shirt and the wonderful, lingering, clean smell of tincture of green soap.
Tom Brewer
Fort Collins, CO
Lehan Drugs has been proudly serving DeKalb and Sycamore for over 60 years. We have two convenient pharmacy locations: in DeKalb on South 4th street and in Sycamore, inside the DeKalb Clinic. We provide much more than prescription drugs and over the counter medicine. Our staff offers the most comprehensive range of pharmacy services in Northern Illinois, including immunizations, medication therapy management, customized medication compounding, one-on-one medication counseling, a weekly pill organization service, and free delivery. Lehan's also accepts most prescription insurance plans including Medicare and Medicaid. At Lehan's, you will find that our knowledgeable and friendly staff is committed to your health, and you will find that we are more than medicine.
Recent Comments