A leading Alberta pharmacy company, Sandstone Pharmacies announced today that it has partnered with Calgary health innovator, CardiAi to provide Albertans with easy, local access to accurate COVID-19 testing at over 20 pharmacy and lab locations across Alberta.
Sandstone Pharmacies provides access to market-leading clinical services, medication adherence programs and health & wellness consumer goods to Calgary and markets in Southern and Central Alberta. Pharmacy locations include Calgary (YYC Airport, Glenmore Landing, City Centre, Crescent Heights, Fifth Avenue, Mckenzie Lake, Dover, (multiple), Medicine Hat (multiple), Airdrie, Nanton, Blackfalds, Bragg Creek, Black Diamond, Innisfail (multiple), Hythe and Langdon.
Effective immediately, each of the 20 Sandstone Pharmacies locations will be available as collection centers for saliva samples required for COVID-19 testing with CardiAI’s proprietary CoviLamp-PCR test.
“Being an organization which services communities across Alberta, we understand implicitly people’s need to have trusted local facilities where they can get friendly professional advice as well as the medical and healthcare products they need.” said Marco Casagrande, Vice President, Sandstone Pharmacies. “With the global pandemic crisis, this has become more important than ever. We’re very pleased to be partnering with one of Canada’s most exciting healthcare innovators CardiAI and, with them, ensuring all Albertans have a quick and convenient way to get accurately tested. In order to stop the spread of this incredibly destructive disease, it’s essential that people have straightforward, local access to rapid testing. Our collaboration with CardiAi ensures our PCR test is made available to as many Albertans as possible and we are excited to be working with the incredible team to advance that effort.”
