Carolina Apothecary

Reidsville, North Carolina (map)

726 South Scales St.
Reidsville, NC 27323

Preceptor Emeritus: Arnold Britt, RPh (abritt@carolinaapothecary.com)
Preceptors: Nathan Hemberg, PharmD (nhemberg@carolinaapothecary.com), Zack Hall, MD

Established in 1945, Carolina Apothecary is Rockingham County’s largest privately owned pharmacy and home medical equipment business. The pharmacy collaborates with the office of Zack Hall, MD, in providing a physician office setting in which to perform chronic disease state management and medication therapy management. The resident gets to experience the benefit of the physician-pharmacist collaborative model in enhancing the health of our patients.

• One resident
• Medication therapy management programs
• Practice management, marketing, reimbursement strategies, community outreach and education, and teaching experiences
• Consulting and medication management services to long-term care facilities
• Teaching experience in classroom and clinical practice settings
• Compounding services
• Home medical equipment division
• Infusion services
• Chronic Disease state management at physician’s office

The present 9,000-square-foot Reidsville facility serves as the corporate headquarters. Owner Arnold Britt, RPh, has established three other locations addressing various aspects of pharmacy care: a store in Eden, which extends the home medical equipment service area; Belmont Pharmacy, which offers pharmaceutical services and gift items; and RxCARE, which services long-term care facilities throughout Rockingham County and beyond.

About the Preceptors

Arnold Britt, RPh

Residency preceptor emeritus

Arnold Britt, owner, has been a licensed pharmacist since 1972 and has been involved in many professional and community organizations, including the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists, the American Pharmaceutical Association, the National Community Pharmacist Association, the Professional Compounding Centers of America, and the American Association of Homecare. He has been active in various capacities with Rockingham Community College, Annie Penn Memorial Hospital, The Salvation Army, Hospice, the Free Clinic of Rockingham County and many more. Because of his involvement with his profession and the community, he was willing to open his business to the development of pharmacist education by becoming a preceptor site, as well as hosting pharmacy interns on a monthly rotational basis. The opportunity to work with pharmacy students has been and continues to be a growing experience for all concerned. With a staff of ten pharmacists, including seven with a PharmD degree, the company has the ability to aid in educating future PharmD residents.

Nate Hemberg, PharmD

Residency preceptor since 2008

Nathan Hemberg received his doctor of pharmacy from Campbell University in May 2006. Since graduating he has been employed as a pharmacist at Carolina Apothecary. His passion for patient care motivated him to help create the clinical care programs at Carolina Apothecary, which include a medication therapy management program and an immunizations program.

Hemberg has his hypertension and immunizations specialty certificate along with training courses from PCCA in compounding and PCCA’s aseptic technique compounding course. He is an adjunct clinical professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and at Campbell University. He precepts introductory and advanced community pharmacy students at his site. Hemberg is also a clinical pharmacist practitioner, which means he has a collaborative practice agreement with a physician and can modify medication therapy for certain disease states as needed based on the physician protocol. Hemberg utilizes his CPP license under Zack Hall, MD, one day each week and focuses on managing diabetes, lipids, hypertension, anticoagulation, osteoporosis, and several others.

Hemberg is a board member for the Free Clinic of Rockingham County, where he sits on the clinical services committee. He has been active in volunteering for the clinic’s chronic disease state management program and helped develop the clinic’s prescription formulary plan. He sits as an adviser on the professional advisory committee for Hospice of Rockingham County. Hemberg worked part time in 2008 at the Rockingham Council on Aging, where he focused on medication-management sessions with the elderly. Hemberg is an active member in the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. His article, “Decongestant Use in Hypertension,” was published in the July 2006 issue of U.S. Pharmacist.

Zack Hall, MD

Residency preceptor since 2009

A Reidsville native, Zack Hall attended North Carolina State University, graduating summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in the honors and scholars program with a double major in biochemistry and zoology. He attended the UNC School of Medicine, graduating in 2003. Hall completed his residency in internal medicine at Moses Cone Hospital in June 2006. Since then, he has been a practicing internist in Reidsville and on staff at Annie Penn Hospital. He is also the medical director at the Hospice of Rockingham County and medical physician for the Hospice Home of Rockingham County. He lives in Reidsville with his wife, Rachel, and two sons. Hall currently precepts medical students from the UNC School of Medicine and nurse practitioner students from UNC-Greensboro.

Abbey Jenkins, PharmD

Residency preceptor since 2011

Abbey Jenkins, PharmD, is a clinical pharmacist at Carolina Apothecary, Belmont Pharmacy, and RxCare in Reidsville, North Carolina. Jenkins received her bachelor of science in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2009) and her doctor of pharmacy from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy (2010). She has completed a community pharmacy residency at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Carolina Apothecary in Reidsville. Jenkins is involved in the implementation and enhancement of clinical activities, including immunizations, medication therapy management services, sterile compounding, disease state management programs, and long-term-care pharmaceutical services. Jenkins is currently a preceptor for student pharmacists completing advanced pharmacy practice rotations and for residents completing a community pharmacy practice residency with the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.

Jenkins is an active member of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists and the American Pharmacists Association.