El Dorado TrueCare Pharmacy

11/21/2025

***HOLIDAY HOURS ALERT***
Thursday, 11/27, Closed for Thanksgiving
Friday, 11/28, 9:00 AM-1:00 PM
Saturday, 11/29, normal hours resume

11/21/2025

Go see our friends at BrewCo. Coffeehouse & Dilly Deli on Small Business Saturday ☕️🤗

⭐️SAVE THE DATE -SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY! ⭐️

NOVEMBER 29th 2025

When you choose to shop small, you’re doing more than grabbing a coffee or picking up a gift. You’re:
✨ Supporting a family, not a corporation
✨ Helping local jobs grow
✨ Strengthening our community
✨ Making it possible for small shops to keep doing what we love ❤️

It’s the little things that make BIG differences for Small Businesses. Something as small as sharing or liking a post, commenting on a post, or leaving a positive review all help in BIG ways.

Let’s share some LOVE with other LOCAL businesses in our community. Tag your favorite and put a tiny little thing you love about them and it will enter you to win a FREE Pumpkin Roll right before Thanksgiving! 🦃

11/17/2025

New items in the store from Ortho Molecular Products:

Creatine- Creatine is one of the most extensively researched nutrients in sports and clinical nutrition, recognized for its broad benefits beyond athletic performance. As a naturally occurring compound critical for rapid energy production, creatine supplementation has been shown to enhance strength and endurance, accelerate recovery, support cognitive performance, and promote healthy aging.

CollaGEN- CollaGEN is formulated to nutritionally support cartilage, tendons, ligaments, fascia, bone and skin.

Fiber MPG- Fiber MGP is a next-generation fiber supplement designed to promote a healthy gut microbiome, support satiety and weight management and aid in healthy bowel function. Fiber MGP provides 11g of fiber strategically designed for gentle digestion and optimal tolerance.

Ortho Molecular Products is committed to science, careful raw product selection and strict quality standards goes into every supplement they formulate.

11/11/2025

Join our crew!

We are looking for part-time cashiers to join us. Must be able to work at least 5:00-7:00 on at least 2 weeknights and 1 Saturday per month. May work as much as 4:00-7:00 every weeknight and every other Saturday. Starting pay is $11 per hour. There will be a weekend training session for all new hires in December.

For questions or if interested, please email your résumé to Lyndsey@eldoradotruecare.com

11/05/2025

Our state recently hired an independent company to study pharmacy operational costs. This term “cost of dispensing” is the average operational cost for each filled prescription, and includes costs such as rent, prescription vials, wages, and computer equipment. Cost of dispensing does NOT include the pharmacy’s purchase cost of the dispensed medication.

While the study was commissioned to determine whether Kansas Medicaid rates are still fair to pharmacies (these rates have not been updated in a long time), we wanted to discuss a different issue that this study uncovered.

According to the study, pharmacy operational costs per prescription were:

$15.85 per prescription for independently owned pharmacies

$11.38 per prescription for chain pharmacies

At first glance, some might say that chain pharmacies are merely more efficient. Maybe these enormous companies can leverage their size to bring down costs? In addition, chain pharmacies frequently don’t offer extra services found at independent pharmacies, such as prescription delivery or specialized medication packaging. Some people might believe that services like these are driving up operational costs for independents.

If you ask anyone in the pharmacy industry, though, it’s VERY clear why it costs the average independent pharmacy nearly 40% more than the average chain pharmacy to fill each prescription: employee staffing levels. To cut costs and improve profits, many chain pharmacies have resorted to staffing their pharmacies at dangerously low levels.

Short-staffed chain pharmacies are not a new phenomenon. We have addressed the topic on our page numerous times over the years. And in 2020, The New York Times even published an article on the topic titled, “How Chaos at Chain Pharmacies Is Putting Patients at Risk”. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/health/pharmacists-medication-errors.html

With the results of this study, we now actually have real data showing just how understaffed these chain pharmacies are. Keep in mind, these pharmacies aren’t necessarily underpaying their employees…they just barely have anyone working behind the counter. If you walk by a typical chain pharmacy, it’s not unusual to see only a handful of employees. And at any given time, many chain pharmacies have fewer employees behind the counter than a typical fast-food restaurant.

While understaffed pharmacies often have long waits and decreased levels of service, that’s not the real problem. The true issue of understaffed pharmacies is safety. It’s one thing for an understaffed fast-food restaurant to give you the wrong type of burger, but at pharmacies even a simple error can be fatal. In the 2020 New York Times article, one chain pharmacist described working in an understaffed pharmacy as, “a danger to the public”.

Things have only become worse since that article was written. There are no laws requiring companies to safely staff pharmacies. In fact, the only time we have ever heard of a pharmacy getting in trouble for being short-staffed was the Canton, OH CVS in 2024 that was literally a MONTH behind in filling prescriptions.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/02/an-ohio-cvs-store-was-a-month-behind-on-filling-prescriptions-state-regulators-slapped-it-with-a-250000-fine.html

Over the last couple of years, our pharmacy has been forced to make the difficult decision of terminating contracts with insurance plans that pay at unsustainably low rates. Many other independent pharmacies throughout Kansas have chosen the same path, and it seems that the only way a pharmacy can continue to accept some of these insurance plans is with unsafe staffing levels. But unlike the CEOs of enormous chain pharmacies, we put the health and safety of our patients first.

We are frequently asked why so many people work at our pharmacy, especially by new patients who are used to the way other pharmacies operate. Usually, we explain that the real question is why so few people are working behind the counter at other pharmacies. How are these pharmacies able to safely take care of their patients? When it comes to choosing a pharmacy, there are multiple factors that need to be considered, and whether the pharmacy has enough employees to safely fill your prescriptions should be near the top of the list.

10/31/2025

Remember to trick-or-treat with us today! Our staff costume this year is "decades" and it's quite adorable!

10/30/2025

Come see us on Halloween! We have candy for trick-or-treaters of all ages. AND each adult, child, and pet that comes in costume can enter to win our raffle and support other local businesses. 🖤🧡 We will draw the winners on Monday, November 3rd.

Raffle for grownups- includes giftcards to Willie's - El Dorado, BrewCo. Coffeehouse & Dilly Deli, and Prairie Blossom Nursery & Garden Center

Raffle for kids-includes giftcards to Butler County Historical Society Home of the Kansas Oil Museum, Central Cinema 6, and The Lanes at El Bowl.

Raffle for pets-treats, toys, and more! And by more, yes we do mean that hilarious cowboy hat!

10/27/2025

We want to see your costumes! Come trick-or-treat in person at the pharmacy any time on Friday, 10/31. Each grownup, child, and pet that comes in dressed up can enter to win a prize, including gift cards to local businesses. 🎃

10/14/2025

It's a great time to get your vaccinations at El Dorado TrueCare Pharmacy. We accept walk-ins 9:00am-5:00pm Monday - Friday and 9:00-12:00 Saturday or you can make an appointment on our website.

El Dorado TrueCare Pharmacy is the oldest and only locally-owned and operated pharmacy in El Dorado, Kansas. We take pride in being a small-town independent pharmacy focused on prescriptions, personalized compounding of medications, hospital transition care, worker's compensation and excellent custo...

09/25/2025

Come see us in Leon today at the Leon Senior Center from 10:00am-12:00pm. Flu and Covid-19 Vaccines available.

09/22/2025

All Fall Vaccines are now available at El Dorado TrueCare Pharmacy!
We have Flu for ages 6 years and up, Spikevax Covid-19 Vaccine, mNexspike Covid-19 Vaccine, RSV, Pneumonia and Shingles. Schedule a vaccine at our website:

El Dorado TrueCare Pharmacy is the oldest and only locally-owned and operated pharmacy in El Dorado, Kansas. We take pride in being a small-town independent pharmacy focused on prescriptions, personalized compounding of medications, hospital transition care, worker's compensation and excellent custo...

09/17/2025

Join us in wishing a Happy Birthday to this "little" lady as she turns 21 today!