2022 AccessAbility Award Recipient: Accessible Pharmacy

Andy Burstein: Hi, everyone. My name is Andy Burstein. I’m a white male, I’m 53 years old. I have a shaved head, a trimmed, beard, eyeglasses, and I’m wearing a white shirt. Thank you so much, I want to thank everyone who is joining us today. Thank you for everyone from Helen Keller Services for this incredible honor. I want to acknowledge the other recipients, both this year and last year. I want to acknowledge our third business partner, Dr. Jason Barrett. And the rest of the team from Accessible Pharmacy Services for the Blind.

For those of you who are not familiar with us, we are Accessible Pharmacy Services for the Blind. We are a home delivery pharmacy service. We specialize in patients who are blind, DeafBlind, and have low vision. We’re the only provider of its kind, we’re the largest blind-owned healthcare company in the country. Everything that we do is focused on merging accessibility and healthcare. And the knowledge that we are gaining from Helen Keller services and the entire Helen Keller Services team has been invaluable for us in the way that we support our patients with dual sensory loss. So I’m very grateful for everyone. I’d like to introduce my business partner, Dr. Alex Cohen, who will also share some thoughts.

Alex Cohen: Hello, everyone, my name is Alex Cohen. I am a middle-aged white male with short brown hair, clean shaven, little grayer than I’d like to be. But it’s such an honor to be here with such wonderful, wonderful recipients for this fine award.

The pursuit of accessibility is ongoing, and we have not met our last patient and continue to learn new ways to make healthcare and medication and diabetes management more inclusive and more accessible. Look, it’s difficult for anybody, but adding blindness, deafness and dual sensory loss creates even more challenges and we understand this. And so we strive at accessible pharmacy services for the blind to make every part of what we do as accessible as possible, freeing, alleviating those barriers and creating a more independent environment from information search, taking pills, to re-ordering, and all of the steps in between. And again, we could not be more honored and grateful for being included in this year’s award ceremony. So thank you so much. [End of Transcript]