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Why Hospitals – Big and Small – Need an Outpatient Pharmacy

Hospital-owned outpatient pharmacies are often unappreciated and shied away from due to the bad e...

Top 4 Issues Found During Pharmacist Home Visits

Hospital readmission penalties from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) continue to affect th...

How Hospitals are Partnering with Pharma To Improve Outcomes?

Hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturers have traditionally looked at themselves as transaction...

Part 2: Leveraging An Outpatient Pharmacy for Employee Benefit Savings

A follow-up to our post from earlier this week: Hospitals who leverage their outpatient pharmacie...

Hospitals’ DIY approach to Employee Pharmacy

There are many examples of health systems that have taken a DIY approach to pharmacy, particularl...

Pharmacist’s Role in a Post-Discharge Medication Reconciliation Program

The Institute of Medicine’s Preventing Medication Errors report reveals that the average hospital...

Could Pharmacists Home Visits Reduce Readmissions?

In 2014, Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, piloted the Medication Therapy Management (MTM)...

3 Keys to Meds-To-Beds Success at an Outpatient Pharmacy

During a visit to a large 340B hospital last month, we were surprised to discover that ...

How Hospitals Are Lowering Readmission Rates

Implementing processes to lower your hospital’s readmission rates is not only in ...

Six Steps To Opening an Outpatient Pharmacy

Outpatient pharmacy services can reduce one of the leading causes of hospital readmission: patien...