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The next step
Dr. Dalton’s next steps are to provide:
Provide telehealth and Mental Health and Substance Abuse services;
Continue to help break down barriers and support economic pathways by providing knowledge about entrepreneurial success and creating wealth.
Secrets to success
“If you’re following your passion, building on what you know and use technology to enhance your position in business then you will be a disruptor to the usual and customary. Things constantly change” he said. “That’s worked for me.”
“You have to learn how to balance your businesses, career and family,” he observed. “The key to a lot of things in business is based on new technology. Stay ahead of it.
“Pharmacists will depend on technology more to be able do telehealth, and the medical environment will be dependent on technology for electronic medical records and services.
“I’m excited about the new technology coming along, which will make the healthcare system more cost effective,” he said.
Acquisitions and Mergers
In 1989, he left Rite Aid to acquire Peoples Drug Stores with an investment group including Robert Bass of Texas.
Dr. Dalton served briefly as a senior vice president at Peoples Drug Stores, before acquiring the Sherman Management Group, one of the first worker compensation pharmacy benefit management companies in the United States, and the Medical Service Agency, where he served as chairman, president, and CEO.
In November 1994, he merged Sherman Management and Medical Services into MEDNET, a public company listed on NASDAQ. Dr. Dalton served as executive vice president of MEDNET and president of Medi-Claim, a wholly owned subsidiary of MEDNET.
His next venture, Managed Care Rx, a specialty pharmaceutical provider for assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and prisons, was merged with a subsidiary of Bergen Brunswick, a drug wholesale company with sales in excess of $14 Billion.
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Technology and Medical care
Later, Dr. Dalton launched Health Resources, Inc. as founding president and CEO.
Health Resources the first African American pharmaceutical company in the United States and it is also a national discount pharmacy benefit management company that has contracted with more than 50,000 retail pharmacies for the fulfillment of prescription orders. Black Enterprise magazine has recognized Health Resources in top 100 lists for over 25 years.
Dr. Dalton is also president and CEO of Univec Inc., which manufactures and distributes specialty pharmaceuticals to hospitals, physicians, pharmacies, and clinics. Physician and Pharmaceutical Services Inc. is the pharmacy sample services division of Univec that provides prescription “starter-script” samples programs for physicians to give to their patients. Among his many responsibilities, Dr. Dalton serves as the chairman of Wellness Healthcare Inc., a telehealth, and wellness company.
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