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A cart on casters is provided for dispensing medication to patients as in a nursing home. The cart is provided with a plurality of drawers, each of which is divided into a plurality of storage areas or compartments. Slide members are mounted on top of the partitions, and are provided with recesses f

A cart on casters is provided for dispensing medication to patients as in a nursing home. The cart is provided with a plurality of drawers, each of which is divided into a plurality of storage areas or compartments. Slide members are mounted on top of the partitions, and are provided with recesses for holding medicine cups and with cross slots for holding patient identification cards. Patient medication cards and blister pack medication cards are stored in an adjacent storage area or compartment in the same order as and in close contiguous relation with the cups and patient cards. Each slide member can be pulled forwardly of its respective drawer for more ready access for dispensing of medication from the cups. An additional dispensing area is provided for medicines that are dispensed as needed including pivotable plastic cups which are turned as soon as the medication has been dispensed so that it is apparent that dispensing has taken place.

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A cart for use in dispensing medications to a plurality of patients comprising a base, wheel means on said base for moving said cart about, means upstanding from said base and slidably supporting at least one drawer, said drawer having a pair of parallel side walls interconnected by a transverse fro

A cart for use in dispensing medications to a plurality of patients comprising a base, wheel means on said base for moving said cart about, means upstanding from said base and slidably supporting at least one drawer, said drawer having a pair of parallel side walls interconnected by a transverse front wall and having front-to-back divider means parallel to and spaced from said side walls and dividing said drawer into a plurality of storage areas and holding a plurality of patient cards and respective medicine cards, and holder means disposed on top of said divider means and having a plurality of recesses shaped and sized for respectively receiving disposable medication dispensing containers respectively having preselected medications therein, and a patient name card support adjacent each said recess for receipt of a patient name card with said patient name cards and medicine dispensing containers proximate to said patient cards and medicine cards in said storage areas, and means slidably mounting said holder means on said divider means for permitting slidable movement of said holder means forwardly of said drawer front wall.