Dana Nelson’s award winning Healthplus Pharmacy has provided consistent stellar San Luis Obispo community services since 1987; including Skilled Nursing Facilities care consultation and featuring principal participation upon various California Central Coast Medically Oriented Boards with professional recognition stretching from San Miguel to Solvang. Dana effectively revived and implemented improved modern long term care approaches, likewise praised for his notable rural Cambria Village Pharmacy operating since 1996 as a small community outlet serving an isolated area--however offering practical urban efficiency providing everything from durable medical equipment and nutraceuticals to flu shot clinics through PT/INR consultation plus personalized prescription consultations. Healthplus Pharmacy (formerly "Hurley's") opened when ten independent pharmacies existed within San Luis Obispo-- and is currently one of the few remaining successfully operating RX concerns. Dana's innovative Healthplus Pharmacy leadership designed and instituted a successful Departmental Team Approach, therein recognizing and implementing professional staff independence for capable office nurses, nutritionists, acupuncturists and physicians. That goal as achieved represents a unique continuum of organized pharmacy specialist responsibility through acute, subacute, long term and ambulatory care.