Key Takeaways
SnapSlide prescription vials feature a patented sliding closure that eliminates difficult push-and-turn mechanisms, making medication access significantly easier for seniors, arthritis patients, and individuals with limited hand strength while maintaining child-resistant safety standards. Nearly 90% of consumers prefer SnapSlide over conventional prescription bottle closures, and Pennsylvania pharmacies are among the first in the U.S. to offer this innovative packaging solution.
- SnapSlide's sliding closure design eliminates the need to push down and twist, allowing one-handed operation for easier medication access
- Nearly 90% of consumers preferred SnapSlide over conventional prescription vial closures in consumer testing
- Maintains child resistance safety while providing improved usability for seniors, arthritis patients, and those with limited dexterity
- Award-winning innovation recognized internationally for patented design and sustainability in the plastics and packaging industries
- Available at independent pharmacies including Family Prescription Counter in Pennsylvania, with plans to expand distribution
Family Prescription Counter in Duryea has become among the first in the U.S. to offer SnapSlide® prescription vials. The packaging technology features a unique sliding closure that eliminates the need to push down and twist, making it significantly simpler to open, dose and close for seniors, individuals with arthritis, and patients with limited hand strength or dexterity, all while maintaining official levels of child resistance.
We interviewed Rocky Batzel, CEO/Inventor of SnapSlide a few years ago as SnapSlide was taking off. It’s a novel packaging design that allows people to open their prescription bottles with one hand, a novel approach to medicine delivery today.
“The big takeaway from this is that they've kind of reinvented the wheel in the fact that there’s been one way to open a pill bottle forever,” says Chris Hampel, Owner of Family Prescription Counter.
Hampel says that he read about the company in a local newspaper, then met the owners of the company Rocky Batzel and Chason Sordoni at a tradeshow in Florida. Being from the same area (Scranton-Wilkes Barre) and being impressed with the company, the small, independent pharmacy decided to give then a go. Hampel says he was excited to get the bottles into customer’s hands.
“We went through them quickly and they were met with a really positive response,” says Hampel. “I've kind of been hoarding them a little bit, but we're just waiting to get them in the hands of everybody.”
SnapSlide will be shipping more vials out soon to the pharmacy so they can use the system for the bulk of its prescription orders.
“There are more people out there than I realized who have difficulty with something I took for granted all these years: having easy access to their medication. SnapSlide provides the solution,” Hampel says.
The SnapSlide vial system has received international recognition for its patented design and patient-friendly operation, earning multiple awards for both innovation and sustainability in the plastics and packaging industries.
Notably, the SnapSlide closure has proven to be substantially more popular regardless of dexterity issues. In focus groups, nearly 90% of consumers preferred SnapSlide to conventional vial closures. And feedback has been positive regardless of dexterity limitations.
“There’s been nothing but positive feedback. The very first person that got them... I was showing her how to use it. She's like, ‘Oh my gosh, my father's going to love these,’” says Hampel.
For now, Hampel says the pharmacy will use the SnapSlide solution for its 11-, and 13-dram vial, but looks forward to using more size options in the future as SnapSlide expands into more volumes.
“We’re excited to see this solution reach patients everywhere, beginning with those in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre market, where the product was born,” says Chason Sordoni, Chief Operating Officer at SnapSlide. “Independent pharmacies often lead the way in adopting meaningful changes that truly impact patient lives, and we’re proud to partner with Family Prescription Counter and Better Health Pharmacy & Wellness.”
