NEWARK — Evernorth Health Services , a specialty pharmacy owned by health insurance giant Cigna, will now be able to distribute 1.5 million prescriptions to one million patients all from a warehouse in the First State Logistics Park.

Those medicines treat complex and chronic health conditions like chronic health conditions, including cancer, hepatitis C, HIV and bleeding disorders. To maintain those therapies in house, some need to be stored at temperatures below -150 Celsius, while others need trained pharmacists and high-tech robotics to verify each order before it is shipped.

“In fact, in this facility, we’re able to process a prescription from when it is received, into fulfillment, and then onto a delivery truck to the patient – in less than 30 minutes. That kind of speed and pre

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