 After decades of helping people feel better one Bemidji pharmacy is closing up shop after 36 years. MedSafe family pharmacy will be closing the retail portion of their business beginning in early February customers will be transferred to CVS pharmacy to have their prescriptions filled. Some of the pharmacy staff have also been offered jobs and will be moving to the CVS location as well. The patient's prescriptions will not go away they will not have to go back to the doctor that will require nothing but going to a different building where we think there'll be some familiar faces some of our employees are going to be offered jobs and they'll be going over there. The closing of MedSafe is considered a restructuring of the family-owned business some of the employees will continue to run portions of the MedSafe business which will operate as a long-term personal care pharmacy and provide personal care compounding which is expected to expand in the near future. I see the compounding as we're going to be starting to market statewide we're going to be possibly multi-state and we hope to go into from the non sterile products which are doing now we hope to go into sterile products we have a vast vast area where we can expand it and be creative in. The retail portion of the MedSafe family pharmacy will close on February 7th. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.