Compounding pharmacy’s Winrock presence adds to development’s growing wellness focus

Compounding pharmacy FarmaKeio NM is cementing its role as a crucial part of Winrock Town Center’s developing wellness sector.

The pharmacy, formerly Albuquerque City Drug, rebranded and relocated to 2100 Louisiana NE in November. FarmaKeio NM joins other health-adjacent businesses at Winrock, including Presbyterian Healthcare Services operations, TriCore Reference Laboratories and Chuze Fitness.

“FarmaKeio NM’s focus is on patient care,” said FarmaKeio Vice President Justin Graves, in a statement to the Journal. “We take the time to understand patient needs to help them achieve their health care goals.”

FarmaKeio Custom Compounding, founded in 2017, established a pharmacy network in 2021. Today, it’s fully licensed as a compounding pharmacy in 48 states, according to its website, serving more than 25,000 medical providers across the country.

As a compounding pharmacy, FarmaKeio NM makes custom medications to meet specific needs not met by commercially available drugs, according to a company spokesperson. That can mean medications available as liquids or creams, in specific dosages or excluding specific ingredients due to allergies, the spokesperson said.

CEO Dan DeNeui said the company invested millions of dollars in FarmaKeio NM’s retail and counter service spaces, and compounding lab.

Pete Sedillo, director of operations for the local pharmacy, said the move to its roughly 4,300-square-foot location has allowed the pharmacy to grow and expand, with a total of three new jobs created and filled so far. Albuquerque City Drug didn’t have the space to do custom compounding until its rebranding and move to Winrock, Sedillo added.

“It’s a lot of unchanged philosophies in business from the transition from Albuquerque City Drug to FarmaKeio NM,” Sedillo said. “Our focus is and has always been on patients, not filling prescriptions; so we want to bring a holistic viewpoint to that.”

A wellness compound

Winrock describes its wellness presence as a “one-stop hub for fitness, flexibility, health and healing,” according to its website, which lists its health stores.

The presence of so many health and wellness entities in the area is part of what inspired Goodman Realty Group to implement a wellness focus to Winrock when the developer purchased it in 2007, said Darin Sand, senior vice president of development.

“It’s a really great piece of our whole puzzle,” Sand told the Journal, adding that many wellness events are planned for the coming year.

Goodman Realty officials were set on adding a pharmacy to the center’s wellness lineup. Despite no interest from commercial pharmacies, they made it happen with the addition of FarmaKeio NM, a development Sand called “exciting.”

Sedillo said the plan is to focus on “what patients want their health outcomes to be.”

“We want more involvement, and we want to take more time to understand their preferences and their concerns and then do anything we can to help them achieve that,” Sedillo said.

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story incorrectly referred to Presbyterian Healthcare Services as Presbyterian Medical Services.