Announcements |
What's new & notable with CPF Grantees and Grants
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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.
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Grants Awarded |
Recent grant approvals from the June 2017 CPF Board Meeting |
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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

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Grants In-study
Interim reports on progress and development |
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John "Jake" Galdo, PharmD, BCPS, CGP - Impact of Depression Screenings in Community Pharmacies
Samford Unversity
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Depression Screening in Pharmacies Impact - view a newly posted 360o video and hear from grantee, Jake Galdo, and independent community pharmacist, Robert Mills. They share an impact story about depression screening for a patient with suicidal thoughts that were undetectable by appearances or converstaions, but were identified through screening.
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Grants Completed |
Recently completed grants on the CPF website |
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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
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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.
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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.
Geoffrey Meer - Better care for high-risk patients - A community-based partnership to deliver in-home medication management
Kelley-Ross Pharmacy Group | Seattle, WA
Co-Investigators
Joshua Akers, Ryan Hansen
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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%.
In applying this project to the quadruple aim:
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Better Care: High patient satisfaction and positive patient experience. 100% of survey respondents would recommend this service to others (n = 22).
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Healthy People: Demonstrated improvement in patient outcomes and health by reducing readmissions.
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Provider Work Life: High satisfaction for providers that improves their efficiency and experience working in healthcare.
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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.
David Nau - Pharmacy Quality Ratings Incorporating the Consumer Perspective
Pharmacy Quality Solutions (PQS)
Co-Investigators
Elliott Sogol (PQS), Jan Kavookijan (Auburn University)
The objectives were to 1) pilot-test the collection of consumer evaluations of community pharmacies for potential inclusion in an overall quality rating of pharmacies, 2) determine the impact of including consumer evaluations in an overall quality rating of pharmacies and 3) gather feedback from community pharmacy owners and chain pharmacy executives on real quality ratings for all pharmacies within the targeted geographic areas.
There was a 27% response rate of pharmacy participation based on initial design resulting in 593 completed surveys. Over 98% of patients surveyed ranked their pharmacy as either "very good" or excellent" when responding to each of the questions in the survey. Overall, based on the current study design, adding the results of the consumer survey to an aggregate star rating for pharmacies had no significant impact on the overall star rating a pharmacy.
Elizabeth Dragatsi, RPh, BCPS - Integrating Pharmacist Support for Thriving in Place Home Health Program
Dragatsi Co. | Waterville, ME
The multi-faceted nature of this grant also resulted in several patient-centric tools (including opioid and pain management) that are part of the new CPF Toolkit and are also posted on the grantee detials page. The objectives are as follows:
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Support and improve thriving in place healthcare efforts by introducing and building pharmacist driven and supervised medication management and collaborative provider services.
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Promote patient driven and centered methods for improving medication management, and have these methods honed and refined for application to future patients.
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Successfully integrate pharmacist medication management efforts into the existing reimbursement structure to ensure sustainability of service provision.
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Collaborate with area community pharmacies servicing study patients giving them clinical background, to achieve synergy in areas of MTM, coaching and adherence monitoring.
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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.
Multi-modal integration of a consultant pharmacist into underserved ambulatory care can extend provider and pharmacist capabilities, improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes, reduce and avoid unnecessary cost and promote provider status.
Practice implementation tools including a comprehensive collaborative practice agreement and business associate agreement are also posted.
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Publications |
Acknowledging scholarly pursuits of our grantees |
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View the CPF website link that lists journal publications associated with CPF grants.
Cheryl Abel - A pilot workshop to help refugees navigate the U.S. pharmacy system
Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 2016 Jul-Aug;56(4):461-466. | CPF Grant Details Page
David Nau / Elliott Sogol - Patient perceptions of a pharmacy star rating model
Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. Volume 57 , Issue 3 , 311 - 317. | CPF Grant Details Page
Olufunmilola Abraham - Pediatric medication use experiences and patient counseling in community pharmacies: Perspectives of children and parents.
Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 2017 Jan-Feb;57(1):38-46. | CPF Grant Details Page
Randy McDonough - Continuous Medication Monitoring (CoMM): A foundational model to support the clinical work of community pharmacists.
Res Social Adm Pharm. 2017 Jan 2. pii: S1551-7411. | CPF Grant Details Page
Natalie DiPietro Mager - Opportunities for Pharmacists and Student Pharmacists to Provide Clinical Preventive Services
Innovations in Pharmacy. 2017;8(1): Article 11. | CPF Grant Details Page
Natalie DiPietro Mager - Use of targeted medication reviews to deliver preconception care: A demonstration project.
Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 2017 Jan-Feb;57(1):90-94. | CPF Grant Details Page
Marie Smith - Strategies for community-based medication management services in value-based health plans.
Res Social Adm Pharm. 2017 Jan - Feb;13(1):48-62. | CPF Grant Details Page
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Tools and Resources |
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Collaborative Practice Agreements: Resources and More in a Toolkit Download
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Upcoming Deadlines and Events |
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AACP Annual Meeting
July 15-19, 2017
CPF Grant Applications Deadline
August 8, 2017
CPF Board Meeting
August 22-23, 2017
NCPA Annual Meeting
October 14-18, 2017
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