The Tri-Cities’ only nearly-24-hour pharmacy will become a CVS in mid-August as Rite Aid closes its other locations in the region as it moves through bankruptcy. 

A sign in a window at the Rite Aid located at 101 N. Ely St. in Kennewick indicates that the location will continue to operate as a Rite Aid pharmacy until Aug. 13, when it will become a CVS. No other information about the change, including operating hours, was immediately available. 

A bankruptcy judge previously approved a sale agreement that would have rival pharmacy retailer CVS purchase the prescription files of 625 Rite Aid pharmacies across 15 states where CVS also provides services, as well as 64 Rite Aid stores in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The locations of those stores have not been disclosed. 

Stores at the intersections of Lee Boulevard and Stevens Drive in Richland and Gage Boulevard and Steptoe Street in Kennewick were among the earliest closings, according to court documents. Rite Aid has since announced they will close July 8 and July 1. 

Court filings submitted on June 20 now include the Rite Aid located at the corner of George Washington Way and Van Giesen Street in Richland as also closing by July 22. 

According to a public database of pharmacy closures, records from the closing Kennewick store will be transferred to the CVS operating inside the Target at 1106 N. Columbia Center Blvd. Rite Aid’s Richland customers will have their pharmacy records transferred to the Target CVS location at 2941 Queensgate Drive. 

No information about Rite Aid’s Pasco store at 1308 N. 20th Ave. was available via the bankrupt pharmacy chain’s court filings nor its pharmacy closures database.