Biography 

Don Grove is a pharmacist, HME store and pharmacy owner. He is married to Cheryl and they have 4 children between them and a Westie dog. Between 2016 and 2021, Don helped Cheryl operate her 5-star Airbnb out of their home as they both enjoy meeting new people. Don's next project is to build their new home in the soon coming TinyTown™ Tiny House Enthusiast (THE) development.

Don has a math degree which helps him approach problems with a number of solutions. He has owned several pharmacies and comes from a family of 12 pharmacists. Don enjoys doing things differently, helping change the status quo, and seeing his ideas make the work environment more employee friendly, efficient, and accurate.

This entrepreneurial passion led to many firsts in pharmacy since Don's graduation from UMKC Pharmacy School in 1971. His success in college athletics at William Jewell College made him even more competitive. Some of Don's early firsts include: a network of satellite infusion pharmacies; an Internet radio program which was a forerunner to podcasts with interviews and co-anchors; LPN Services Coordinators that served as non-technician/pharmacists to avoid state tech ratios; selling G&H computer software that evolved into QS/1 software running on IBM hardware; converting a bank drive-up window into a pharmacy drive-up before pharmacies embraced them in 1973; initiating an Rx packaging system with carts for nursing homes that later became the standard nationwide; and engineering a prototype website for the NCPA that became www.cornerdrugstore.com.

A pioneering new pharmacy concept in 2000 helped Don initiate the first legal telemedicine with doctors practicing both in and out of the US to ship one Rx globally, with his pharmacy functioning as the fulfillment site.  Don foresaw the value of the Rx synchronization and became one of the first 6 pharmacy pilots in the nation with Cardinal Health and the University of Mississippi.

A prototype project developed by Don and his team was the AAS360, Accident Avoidance System with 360 degree warning for motorcycles to avoid 18-wheelers on the highways. Don currently has a patent pending "Apparatus and Method for Distribution of Food in a Restaurant," a concept that will allow fast food corporations to incorporate nutritional food inexpensively into normal operations.

Tripling pharmacist/technician output while increasing accuracy and employee satisfaction led to Don's development of the SmartFlow Pharmacy Workflow System™ at J&D Pharmacy after they moved to their newly designed 27,000 sq. ft. medical building in 2005 in Warsaw, Missouri. SmartFlow then branched out into the patented SmartFlow LAB™, a vertical pharmacy redesign with Rx production separated from clinical, rather than the standard horizontal shape.

Don's vision to build affordable, distinctively different housing led to plans for a futuristic 48-acre TinyTown™ development with 140 tiny homes targeting 12 total locations in the US and Canada, and one day building tiny house settlements in Israel.

A love of writing helped Don write many pharmacy columns, articles, and books. His willingness to follow Jesus produced his first book at www.yousaidwhatgod.com. He just finished 16 stories/32 programs for a faith based TV series, called "The Chuckle Factor."

Don's idea of allowing patients to manufacture their own OTC anti-inflammatory/joint relief medication in their kitchen using bottled water and a unique powder led to the development of Topshelf HA, a unique Fountain of Youth molecular product that is being sold & shipped across the US & now internationally. It can be found at www.ha-topshelf.com.

Currently Don is approaching a successful franchise in the hopes they will be persuaded to be one of the first “Safe Franchises” in the US using air filtration to reduce SARS, the virus that causes COVID. He and his partners will soon be rolling out the MightyKleans Car Mister, a mobile unit that vaporizes HOCL to reduce 99.9% of SARS.

Don is a perpetual innovator and recovering narcissist; this resume should confirm it.