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AACP Annual Meeting

CPF looks forward to connecting wtih existing and future grantees at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual Meeting!

  
 

APhA Annual Meeting 2018

CPF Grantees and community pharmacy practitioners - showcase your pharmacy practice innovations at the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) 2018 Annual Meeting & Exposition, March 16-19, in downtown Nashville. PharmTalk sessions are TED-style talks that feature a 10-minute presentation of an innovation followed by a 5-minute Q&A to make the session as interactive as possible. The submission deadline is Monday, July 17, 2017. 

Natalie Young, PharmD, FACVP - Improving the Veterinary Pharmacy Competency of Community Pharmacists Through a Piloted Educational Program
Realo Discount Drugs, NC

Hannah Renner, PharmD - Utilizing Community Pharmacy Prescription Dispensing Data to Identify Opportunities for Pharmacist-Prescriber Collaboration
University of Pittsburgh, PA

Grants In-study Interim reports on progress and development

These grants were recently completed and manuscripts are submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journals. View the CPF Synopsis and supporting materials via the hyperlinks below for the project overview as we await notification of publication decisions and citation links.

Nanci Murphy (UW/WSU) Collaboration - Fostering Pharmacy Leadership Towards Achieving the IHI Triple Aim Goals
University of Washington (UW) and Washington State University (WSU)

Co-Investigators
UW: Rachel Allen, Kelsey (Meyer) Brantner, Curtis Jefferson, Nanci Murphy | WSU: Shannon G. Panther, Jennifer Robinson 

• The overarching goal of this collaborative leadership curriculum was to provide all student pharmacists currently enrolled in Doctor of Pharmacy programs in Washington State the opportunity to develop the key competencies needed to innovate and advance practice based on the following themes: leadership, strengths, teamwork, real world application. A modular curriculam of 5 topics was developed. Modules 1, 2, and 3 discussed the need for pharmacist leaders, identifying your own leadership strengths and how to apply your strengths to maximize a team's potential. During these modules, students prepared a proposal for a clinical community pharmacy project, which would enhance or create a new service. Modules 4 and 5 related to 'pitching' the project idea effectively.

• The leadership and project based curriculum is an innovative model to help students use the foundational knowledge and concepts learned in the course (e.g. Kotter's model of change and the IHI Triple Aim goals) which are applied it to address real challenges in the community setting.

• The primary objective was to provide an in-home medication coaching program for patients with heart failure discharged from Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC) that identified and resolved medication related problems (MRPs) in an effort to reduce readmissions. Thirty day all-cause readmissions were at 8% (4 out of 50) for VMMC, vs. usual care patients at 22.1%.

• Better Care: High patient satisfaction and positive patient experience. 100% of survey respondents would recommend this service to others (n = 22).
• Healthy People: Demonstrated improvement in patient outcomes and health by reducing readmissions.
• Provider Work Life: High satisfaction for providers that improves their efficiency and experience working in healthcare.
• Lower Cost: Cost analysis of the service reveals that total cost of care may be reduced, thus resulting in savings to insurers, employers, families, and individuals. The estimated cost savings per patient in this model was $1,117.26, for a total estimated cost reduction over the 50 patient sample of $55,863. 

1. Support and improve thriving in place healthcare efforts by introducing and building pharmacist driven and supervised medication management and collaborative provider services.
2. Promote patient driven and centered methods for improving medication management, and have these methods honed and refined for application to future patients.
3. Successfully integrate pharmacist medication management efforts into the existing reimbursement structure to ensure sustainability of service provision.
4. Collaborate with area community pharmacies servicing study patients giving them clinical background, to achieve synergy in areas of MTM, coaching and adherence monitoring.
5. Formulate a successful model of service delivery by an independent pharmacist consultant in underserved community practices and pharmacies who cannot otherwise afford experienced clinical pharmacist support, thereby making a positive contribution to population health of areas with associated low health scores and/or lower quality provider practice scores at baseline.