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Strategies for Achieving Community-Wide Access to Pharmaceuticals

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Learn what a full access pharmaceutical system looks like. Develop a pharmaceutical access enterprise that is sustainable and able to support a community-wide safety net. Achieve both cost savings and improved health outcomes. Take action! Be part of a learning community changing the way pharmaceuticals are accessed.

The Institute will:

• Establish a repository of best practices;
• Establish a community blueprint for achieving full access to pharmaceutical services;
• Provide access to faculty with expertise in implementing successful programs;
• Establish peer support in a collaborative team environment; and
• Organize access to ongoing technical assistance.

You will learn how to:

• Evaluate your community’s needs and assets so you can design a pharmaceutical access plan that will work in your community;
• Develop the partnerships necessary to make this plan happen;
• Combine pharmaceutical industry programs, bulk purchasing arrangements, and other strategies to obtain the medications needed for the lowest price;
• Develop a community-wide pharmaceutical access action plan;
• Develop a cost-effective formulary;
• Account for pharmacy regulations that may affect your program;
• Use available software, web sites, and other tools to increase efficiency;
• Evaluate how well you are meeting your goals and objectives
• Develop a return on community investment strategy to make your pharmacy enterprise sustainable.

You should attend this Institute if you are:

• The manager of a hospital system, health center, health department or other organization involved in a coalition committed to increasing access to pharmaceuticals;
• A pharmacist, physician, nurse or other clinician committed to increasing access to pharmaceuticals;
• A funder helping a community or group of communities increase access to pharmaceuticals; or
• A provider of technical assistance looking for new strategies to help communities develop effective pharmacy strategies that will achieve both cost savings and improved health outcomes.

Meet the Faculty:

Cenla Medication Access Program (Alexandria, LA)
Wendy Roy – Program Manager
Sue Fontenot, RPh – Supervising Pharmacist

Communicare (Columbia, SC)
Ken Trogden – Executive Director
Rudolph Rustin, MD – Chairman of the Board

Coordinated Care Network (Pittsburgh, PA)
Jeffrey S. Palmer – President & CEO
Thomas J. Pollack – Vice President & CFO

Additional Expert Speakers include:

Luncheon Keynote
Beth Bortz, Executive Director
Medical Society of Virginia Foundation

Pharmacy Policy & Regulations
William von Oehsen, Principal
Powers, Pyle, Sutter & Verville

Formulary Development
Andrew Wilson, PharmD, FASHP, Director of Pharmacy Services
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

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