{"id":19748,"date":"2019-10-29T13:47:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=61144"},"modified":"2019-10-29T13:47:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:47:22","slug":"women-can-now-buy-birth-control-at-king-soopers-pharmacies-without-a-doctors-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/women-can-now-buy-birth-control-at-king-soopers-pharmacies-without-a-doctors-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Women can now buy birth control at King Soopers pharmacies without a doctor\u2019s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/10\/lady-shn-091218-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/10\/lady-shn-091218-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/10\/lady-shn-091218-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/10\/lady-shn-091218-1-325x244.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>City Market pharmacies can now directly dispense some birth control.<\/strong><br \/><em>File photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Kroger Health announced Monday that pharmacists at its locations in Colorado, which include King Soopers and City Market stores, will start directly dispensing hormonal birth control, meaning women who get their medicine there can now skip a trip to the doctor\u2019s office for select contraceptives.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows a 2016 state law that gave women who are at least 18 the ability&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/02\/27\/access-to-birth-control-colorado-oral-contraceptives\/\">to receive birth control from pharmacists<\/a>&nbsp;after completing a questionnaire, blood-pressure check and consultation.<\/p>\n<p>Kroger Health has rolled out the new policy, which it says will increase access to birth control by making it convenient and less expensive, in six other states, including New Mexico and Utah. It is effective immediately, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that our pharmacists in the specified divisions are able to prescribe hormonal contraceptives, the process is so much easier for women,\u201d said Colleen Lindholz, president of Kroger Health, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Women will be able to pick up birth control patches and self-administered hormonal contraceptive products directly from Kroger Health Clinics and from pharmacies at King Soopers and City Market, as well as Fred Meyers, QFC, Ralphs and Smith\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/denverpost.com\">DenverPost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/women-can-now-buy-birth-control-at-king-soopers-pharmacies-without-a-doctors-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Market pharmacies can now directly dispense some birth control.File photo Kroger Health announced Monday that pharmacists at its locations in Colorado, which include King Soopers and City Market stores, will start directly dispensing hormonal birth control, meaning women who get their medicine there can now skip a trip to the doctor\u2019s office for select [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 09:35:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}