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• Individual: Recognizes an individual whose pioneering contributions to community pharmacy practice demonstrate improved patient outcomes through quality of care and medication optimization.
• Pharmacy: Recognizes a community pharmacy, which in collaboration with external partners has developed innovative programs resulting in improved quality of care, medication optimization, and patient outcomes.

PQA 2018 Annual Meeting: Call for Abstracts

The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) invites poster abstract submissions for the PQA Annual Meeting, which will be held from Wednesday, May 16 to Friday, May 18, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. PQA's poster session provides an opportunity for authors to highlight their efforts to improve healthcare quality and for attendees to engage in insightful dialogue about the quality landscape. Submission Deadline: January 12, 2018 at 11:59 pm Eastern.


AACP 2018 Annual Meeting: Call for Abstracts

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Council of Sections (COS) invites AACP members to submit educational and scientific research poster abstracts (PDF) for the 2018 Annual Meeting poster sessions on Sunday, July 22 and Monday, July 23, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts. The submission deadline is Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 11:59 pm Pacific. 
 

Congratulations Grantees!


Aaron Garst, PharmD | Tennessee Pharmacists Association

Co-investigator
Micah Cost, PharmD, MS | Tennessee Pharmacists Association

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created Chronic Care Management (CCM) services to incentivize and fund non-face-to-face care coordination for Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions. Chronic Care Management (CPT 99490) is defined as at least 20 minutes per month of clinical staff time that involves managing a patient's care and is directed by a physician or other qualified healthcare professional. CMS provided an exception to typical incident to billing requirements when delivering CCM services, by permitting general supervision instead of direct supervision. General supervision means the service is furnished under the physician's overall direction and control but the physician's presence is not required during the service. Thus, general supervision requirements allows for community pharmacist-provided CCM services in a community pharmacy setting.  This grant allowed for the development and implementation of a model to integrate a community pharmacist into a prescriber's office using a Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA) and Business Associate Agreement (BAA) to deliver and bill for clinical services. A detailed implementation guide with tools and resources has been created to assist community pharmacists in providing services through this model of care.


CPF Project Title:
Evaluation of a Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Model for Community Pharmacist-Provided Chronic Care Management (CCM) Services

Grant Details Page | CPF Synopsis | CCM Toolkit

Nicole Russell | National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP)

Enhancing Independent Community Pharmacist Involvement in NCPDP: Year 4



The following CPF-funded participants contributed to the November 2017 NCPDP Workgroup Meetings.

1. Christian Tadrus, RPh, PharmD, FASCP, AE-C, Sam’s Health Mart Pharmacy, Missouri
2. Farah Towfic, PharmD, Osterhaus Pharmacy, Iowa
3. C. A. Kuykendall, RPh, Village Pharmacy, Arkansas

External Presentations

Several CPF Grantees expanded awareness of their CPF grants and findings beyond traditional pharmacy audiences at various health and technology conferences. 

Natalie DiPietro Mager, RPh PharmD MPH | Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy (Primary Investigator)
Co-investigators
David R. Bright, PharmD, BCACP | Ferris State University
David Hartzell, PharmD, MHA, BC-ADM | CareSource
Krystalyn Weaver, PharmD | National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations (NASPA)
Lindsey Weis, PharmD, MPH | OutcomesMTM

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Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA) Annual Conference | October 30, 2017
Drs. Bright, Hartzell and Weaver (photos ordered from left to right below) participated in a  panel discussion at the MHPA meeting titled "Using Pharmacists to Improve Health Outcomes: A Case Study in Maternal and Infant Health".




                   
American Public Health Association (APHA) | November 6, 2017
Drs. Lindsey Weis and Natalie DiPietro Mager gave an oral presentation titled "Development, Implementation and Assessment of a Pharmacist-Provided Preconception Care Initiative" as part of the Pharmacy Topics section of the APHA meeting.

CPF Project Title: 

Pharmacist Provision of Preconception Care Through Medication Therapy Management

Grant Details Page | Facebook Post

Lydia Bailey, PharmD | St. Vincent de Paul Charitable Pharmacy - Ohio Rusty Curington, PharmD | St. Vincent de Paul Charitable Pharmacy - Ohio National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics (NAFC) Symposium | October 2, 2017 Dr. Curington presented the content rich and visually appealing slides in a session titled "Prescription for Collaboration: Engaging Pharmacists in Your Clinic" are available.  They include an overview of the project deliverable for a Collaborative Practice Agreement Pharmacy Toolkit. A link to the presentation slide materials is below. CPF Project Title:  Neighbors Helping Neighbors: A business plan and data collection policy, training, and documentation for pharmacist services within a collaborative practice agreement. Grant Details Page | Presentation     Publications Olufunmilola Abraham, PhD, BPharm | University of Pittsburgh, School of Pharmacy Title: Human Factors in Pharmacy: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Journal: Sage Journal . Vol 61, Issue 1, pp. 666 - 670. September 2017 Grant Details Page | Publication Brian Isetts, RPh PhD BCPS FAPhA FASCP | University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy Title: Integrating Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Services Provided by Community Pharmacists into a Community-Based Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Journal: Pharmacy 2017, 5, 56. Grant Details Page | Publication Geoffrey Twigg, PharmD, BCACP, CDE | Apple Discount Drugs Charlotte (Taft) Wilson, PharmD | Pharmacy Manager at Williams Bros. Healthcare Pharmacy | Former PGY1 Resident at University of Maryland Eastern Shores I Apple Discount Drug This publication is related to a residency project that was awarded an APhA Foundation / CPF Community Pharmacy Incentive Grant in 2016. Title: Pharmacist-led depression screening and intervention in an underserved, rural, and multiethnic diabetic population Journal: Journal of the American Pharmacists Association (in press) Grant Details Page | Article | Publication 'Hot off the press' from the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) listserv: Congrats to Geoffrey Twigg, PharmD, BCACP, CDE on being selected as the next Pharmacy Communities of Interest (COI) Leader-Elect. The term will begin Jan 1st, 2018.