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There is nothing that hurts us more when a pharmacist stands up and is not passionate about the job that we do and the care that we provide.

The first thing is educating these folks, because it's hard for them to understand our challenges if they don’t understand what we do.

Get involved, attend their sessions, attend their conferences, understand what they’re saying, make sure that we’re, again, speaking with that one common voice.

You just need to tell your story and be genuine and be real, and it makes such a difference.

We have to have this one voice that we've been talking about, this one consistent message.

Whether it was the ability to vaccinate, whether it was the ability to test, whether it's now the ability to prescribe Paxlovid for patients, those are big progress moves for the profession of pharmacy.

When we talk about access, that is a pharmacist.

Health Mart University also offers "basic technician training programs," to allow pharmacies to bring those new technicians on board, help them meet the PTCB examination standards, and really get that new technician ready to go.

Health Mart was able to deliver the targeted education they needed in a virtual manner to allow them to start in the uniting and to keep their immunization credentials.

We need to be able to build on that momentum, and at the same time, we need sustainable reimbursement models.

Health Mart University started as a platform to be franchise standards.

There's a lot of complexity in the agreements, so pharmacies like Health Mart Atlas provide reporting and resources.

Pharmacies need to kind of move beyond those models that are more punitive and look for true pharmacy-based measures and the ability to pay for performance and outcomes for patients.

It's really been a challenge for Health Mart pharmacies with the labor market the way that it is.

PSAO supports community pharmacies through patient access by unlocking the right payer agreements.

At the end of the day, we're interdisciplinary in terms of how it is that we need to manage our patients.

Pharmacies are so much more attuned to being able to use that technician to the top of his or her license and credential.

We spend a lot of time harping on vaccine hesitancy, but one thing we don't talk about is vaccine access, and that is really a very key indicator to a lack of cultural competency.

It's really important that we capitalize on this time and the impact that pharmacists had to make some of this reform permanent.

If we are culturally competent, then we know the impacts of social determinants of health can have and how racism and transphobia homophobia can contribute to the social determinants of health.

Every pharmacist knows that if they don't have a well-trained technician available, they're not going to be able to do the things that were so amplified during COVID-19.

Even before the pandemic, pharmacists were playing a really important role in public health, being one of the most accessible health care providers.

Pharmacies have a lot of opportunities to think out of the box, to be innovative, and continue to drive that power of community that we're highlighting at the event here.

Being able to acknowledge those missteps that may have been made that may have prevented you from delivering as culturally competent care, and being able to recalibrate and to take the correction is an important step.

Cultural competence should be thought in terms of being cognizant that there are differences in every single patient.

CS Family Pharmacy has migrated to a combo-type pharmacy, integrating long term care.

Bunch Pharmacy has been in business for 24 years in the rural area of Alabama.

The American Diabetes Association guidelines have self-care and lifestyle recommendations for patients and health care professionals.

Learning the Pharmacists' Patient Care Process steps and being mindful or internalizing those can help set best practices for pharmacy team members.

Health Mart also presented the first ever Innovation Award at McKesson ideaShare 2022.