By Chad Koenen and 

Robert Williams

Frazee-Vergas Forum staff

Seip Drug Store is the kind of place where you can fill your prescriptions with a friendly staff that knows your name—all-while picking up a few essentials for your home. That includes picking up everything from a sympathy card for a loved one, over-the-counter medication, gift ware and an ever-changing collection of merchandise throughout all of Seip Drug’s many locations in the region.

While Seip Drug has grown through the years, the same small-town feel customers have come to know hasn’t changed. For example, pharmacists will take the extra time to not only visit with customers about their medication needs, but they will help patrons find exactly what they are looking for on the shelves. When it comes time to tell their customers how to use the products, the pharmacists and staff members at each Seip Drug Store do their part to make sure a customer understands how to use a product. 

“It’s personalized service. We feel we are faster and have more of a one-on-one service,” said owner Nathan Seip of what makes Seip Drug stand apart from other pharmacies. “All of our employees care about their jobs and their patients.”

One service the pharmacy is especially proud of is the ability to mail out prescriptions to fill the ever-changing needs of their customers. This allows local residents to have the ability to receive their prescriptions if they are home bound, or unable to navigate a difficult winter storm. It’s that small town touch, and willingness to go the extra mile, to help customers and residents in the region. 

Along those same convenience lines, Seip Drug offers a med sync program at each of its stores. The program allows residents to make one trip to the drug store every 30 or 90 days, for example, to pick up all of their regular medication. The pharmacy will have all of the patient’s regular pills packaged for them, which will allow for a streamlined process for regular medication. 

The program has been a popular option for people who no longer have to remember to stop by the drug store at various times throughout the month to pick up a prescription. 

“It works well for us and the patients,” said Seip. “We just tell them they are ready to be picked up.”

Seip estimates that 70 percent of regular customers are enrolled in the med sync program.

“It’s the convenience of coming in once a month or once every 90 days for some people,” said Seip. 

Another service the pharmacy is especially proud of is the ability to mail out prescriptions to fill the ever-changing needs of their customers. This allows local residents to have the ability to receive their prescriptions if they are home bound, or unable to navigate a difficult winter storm. 

It’s that small town touch, and willingness to go the extra mile, to help customers and residents in the region.

Seip also offers compliance packaging, which consists of a week’s worth of meds on a card with exact days and times for when patients need to take their medications. 

“It’s good for people who forget to take their meds,” Pharmacist April Johnson said. “We have a few people on them who really like them.”

Compliance packaging typically comes in four punch cards to cover an entire month.

In addition to conventional medical needs, each of the Seip Drug Stores can provide vaccinations. Most vaccinations, like the flu vaccine, can be received with short notice as an ample amount of vaccines are kept on hand, but pharmacists ask that people call ahead to make sure a staff member is available to give the vaccine. Employees will bill a patient’s insurance company, which means in many cases, the flu shot can be received for no cost to patients. 

Seip has new Hornet gear and has stocked some in larger sizes per customer request. 

For more information on the Frazee Seip location call (218) 334-3070 or visit them online at www.seipdrug.com.