Since 1957
A family pharmacy, still run like one
Walt Haller opened his first pharmacy in 1957 and kept it open every day of the year. The counter has moved. The way it is run has not.
Where we are
Down the hall from your appointment
Medical Pavilion Pharmacy lives inside the Medical Office Building at St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy, California. You can walk from your doctor's appointment straight to our counter and have your prescription filled before you leave the building. We work directly with the hospital's providers, so treatment starts without a wasted trip.
Our values
How we work
Empathy
You are a neighbor, not a queue position.
Accuracy
Every prescription checked by a pharmacist, every time.
Honesty
Straight answers about cost, options and what you actually need.
The Haller family
Walt Haller's story
During World War II the U.S. Navy brought Walter Haller and his bride-to-be, Lenna Belle Flannery, from southern Indiana to the Naval Air Station in Alameda.
After the war, with Belle's encouragement, Walt attended the University of California School of Pharmacy. Belle had worked in drug stores in Indiana and through the war, and kept working at Miller's Drug Store in Alameda while Walt was in school. When he graduated they sold their home in Alameda to buy a small Rexall pharmacy in Newark. Its success led Dr. Guy Romito to invite them to open a pharmacy in his medical building in Fremont's Centerville district. That store opened on March 18, 1957.
Walt and Belle's focus was a professional pharmacy built around the needs of the community. Walt kept the doors open every day of the year, including Christmas. "Sick people don't have holidays," he said. When doctors asked, he opened at any hour of the night. Haller's was the first pharmacy in the area to stock crutches, wheelchairs, hospital beds and other medical supplies.
Walt grew the business to four locations in Fremont and Newark, but it stayed a family business — run by Walt and Belle, staffed by their daughters Mary and Jeanne and by others who became part of the Haller's family. After nearly twenty years of fourteen-hour days, seven days a week, Walt sold the business in 1975. The independent, professional pharmacy he built is the one still standing behind this counter.
Walter Martin Haller
May 30, 1919 – January 28, 2016
His wife Lenna Belle died in 2004.
Questions about a prescription?
A pharmacist answers. No appointment and no phone tree. Come by the counter, call, or email.