August 2013

Retail and pharmacy-based convenient care clinics provide affordable, accessible, quality health care to consumers.

Pharmacists should solidify their place within the patient-centered medical home. Here is an early model that achieves better health outcomes through comprehensive medical management and a team-based approach.

The medication reconciliation process helps avoid medication errors and demonstrates the integral contribution of the pharmacy technician.

Relationships built on mutual trust and respect are the foundation for the Senior PharmAssist program.

In the behavioral health clinic, pharmacists do much more than just fill prescriptions.

The ideal way to treat patients is to make them a member of the team. The Grand-Aides program is an innovative workforce model that successfully uses each member to their maximum capacity.

Pharmacists play a critical role in ensuring continuity of medication management as patients are transferred across care settings.

Pharmacists have new opportunities for expanding their role in the care continuum.

Care coordination is not easy to achieve, but with real transformation it is possible to fix the health care system.

Here are tenets pharmacists can embrace and incorporate into their daily practice.