Bissell Pharmacy Starting Prescription Delivery

There's a new way for sick or housebound Ridgefielders to get prescriptions without showing up at the pharmacy counter: Bissell's delivers.

The drug store is piloting a program that, for a $5 surcharge, will bring prescriptions door-to-door from 2 to 3 p.m. on weekdays.

The idea started with Eloise Barron, the coordinator of the Ridgefield Visiting Nurse Association's Quality Living at Home program and was ushered into being by Commission on Aging Chairman Christine Robertson.

"We have been trying to get free delivery from all the pharmacies in town but, because their headquarters aren't here, we're having a problem," Robertson said.

The CVS downtown delivers to Ballard Green, she said, but that was about it for delivery for the elderly or infirm until Bissell Pharmacy owner Ed Karvosky, who lives locally, stepped in.

Karvosky isn't sure who will be delivering the prescriptions yet, but the program has begun piloting, so the pharmacy will explore its possibilities.

"If it works out, I can continue to do it," he said.