, the Ramsell family of companies has been dedicated to serving the underserved through their business and personal commitments.
– Sylester Flowers opens his first retail pharmacy, The Apothecary, which grows into a chain of pharmacies primarily serving inner-city communities
– Flowers founds Ramsell Corporation, named after the street he lived on at the time, as a holding company for the pharmacies
– Ramsell starts working with the City of San Francisco’s Department of Mental Health to address the city’s opiate drug abuse epidemic in San Francisco’s impoverished Western Addition neighborhood. Flowers is later appointed Pharmacy Director for this program
– Ramsell develops the first outpatient prescription plan and fiscal intermediary program for San Francisco’s Mental Health Department using a custom-built software program
– Ramsell begins developing and implementing an outpatient prescription benefit program for San Francisco County’s residents living with HIV and AIDS
– Ramsell implements the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) in San Francisco County
– Eric A. Flowers, current President and of Public Health Service Bureau, joins Ramsell Corporation as a Vice President
– Ramsell manages ADAP implementation in Santa Barbara County
– San Mateo County chooses Ramsell for an ADAP implementation
– Ramsell wins a competitive bid with the State of California for a contract to consolidate all county ADAP programs. Ramsell completes this process in 90 days
– Ramsell is chosen to administer California ADAP services through 2005
– State of Washington awards Ramsell a contract to administer its APDP program
– Flowers Heritage Foundation starts with an educational grant to Howard University
– The contract to administer ADAP services for Washington State is extended through 2006
– Ramsell becomes Ramsell Holding Corporation, creating subsidiaries representing each independent line of business
– Public Health Service Bureau is formed as a LLC.
– Public Health Service Bureau wins a new contract with the State of California to administer its ADAP
program through 2008.
– The Flowers Heritage Foundation becomes a non-profit (501c3) organization dedicated to providing
solutions for public health issues affecting the underserved.
– Public Health Service Bureau wins contract to administer ADAP services for Washington State through 2009.
– The Flowers Heritage Foundation provides funding for 22 waitlisted ADAP patients in Montana.
– The Flowers Heritage Foundation launches “Don’t Turn Your Back on AIDS,” an annual AIDS awareness
art scholarship program for San Francisco Bay Area high school students.
- Public Health Service Bureau become Ramsell Public Health Rx.
A HISTORY OF CARING 
