MARCH 2022

Advocacy—An Essential Component of Practice   Earlier in my pharmacy career I frequently said that I am an apolitical person—in other words what I really meant was that I didn’t want to get involved in discussions with my legislators. I felt that if I practice “good pharmacy” then that should be “good enough” for my advocacy efforts. Now, looking back at my younger self, I realize just how naïve and ignorant I was for such beliefs. My advocacy efforts ramped up early in 2013 when in the first two weeks of January I noticed that the effective rate of reimbursement had... click here for the rest of the article.

Randy McDonough, PharmD, MS, BCGP, BCPS, FAPhA Director of Practice Transformation Flip the Pharmacy

Flip the Pharmacy Change Package for March 2022 Hypertension Progression

The change package is an implementation guide which is intended to help pharmacies to improve their workflows, increase meaningful patient care experiences, and understand documenting eCare Plans.   During March, establish common interventions that are performed for patients with medication-related problems and communicate findings with the prescriber. Establish and foster your relationship with one of your top prescribers for your mutual patients. This is a great time introduce the pharmacy’s enhanced services to prescribers for mutual patients with hypertension. Click here or the image to check it out.

Flip the Pharmacy Best Practices Webinar Our March Best Practices Webinar featured NCPA Innovation Center/CPESN Community Pharmacy Fellow Megan Graver from Hartzell’s Pharmacy in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania Click here for the recording Please join us for our next sessions! Wednesday, April 13, 2021 at 1 p.m. EST Click here if you have not yet registered for the series

Stress Less, Sync More Atchley Drug Center is Making a Difference in People’s Lives Any community pharmacist knows the gut-dropping feeling of checking the “queue” at opening hour. An endless list of prescriptions consumes the monitor, voicemail messages await a response, and anxious patients press their noses against the storefront windows. In their efforts to minimize this daily morning stress, the pharmacists at Atchley Drug Center had made numerous failed attempts to proactively align patients’ medication fills on the same appointment day; however, their Med Sync (Medication Synchronization) program never could gain any momentum. This pharmacist duo lacked accountability and coaching, that is, until they enrolled in Flip the Pharmacy. Click here to read the full article.

Technology Solutions Partners Workflow Webinars The Flip the Pharmacy / CPESN Workflows Webinars hosted by the Technology Solutions Partners (TSPs) is a series to help your pharmacy staff understand how to maximize their technology systems for eCare Plan documentation.   Click here for the registration information and  the dates and times provided by our TSPs.   Mark your calendars so that you don’t miss your TSP’s webinar!

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Click here to enjoy a short blog post entitled, "Don't Fear the Flip" by Candi Potter & Madison Saint-Amand Davis from Kinston Clinic Pharmacy in Kinston, NC and a part of Team North Carolina. Jump in and share your thoughts via the Flip the Pharmacy blog.

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