Red Cross Pharmacy started as a single store located in the small river town of Miami Missouri in 1854. In 1879, the pharmacy was moved to Marshall Missouri after a major fire wiped out most of the town. The pharmacy was relocated to the space it still occupies today on the Marshall Square. Through the years ownership exchanged hands several times until the Hartwig family purchased controlling interest in 1971. Another store was opened in Marshall in 1975 and in Salisbury in 1980. Heartland Medical Equipment, Inc. was established in 1988 to provide some diversification and to meet the home service needs of existing patients.

Significant growth came between 1998 and 2003 with the addition of retail stores in Kearney, Excelsior Springs, Odessa, Warrensburg, Grain Valley and Oak Grove Missouri. In 2004 RC Long Term Care Pharmacy was created to meet the unique needs of long term care patients.

Today the corporation consists of eleven retail pharmacies, one long term care pharmacy, and a home medical equipment company with retail stores located in nine Missouri towns and servicing thirteen counties in the northwest central part of the state.

Red Cross Pharmacy, Inc. has no connection or affiliation with the American Red Cross. We are one of about twenty organizations world-wide that have been granted lawful use of the Red Cross name and emblem since we were established prior to January 5, 1905.