Establishing A Partnership With A Long-Term Care Pharmacy And Institution
A long-term care pharmacy offers the help you need to reduce the bottom line while still providing the medication and support that your residents need. However, it’s important to choose the right long-term care pharmacy. Here’s what to look for.
1. Consultation and Education Services
Even if you already have a clinical specialist to oversee your residents medications, you should look for a long term care pharmacy that offers consultation services and education. This enables you to keep track of things such as:
- residents that take too many medications to treat symptoms caused by other medications
- residents with over-priced medications when less expensive options are available
- better and more effective medications to substitute for less effective ones
- rising medication costs for individual residents and throughout the facility
2. Simplification of Nurses Tasks
Nurses are among the most overworked staff members at any facility. Their duties include medication dispensing, basic residents care, management, and more.
A good long-term care pharmacy can help to alleviate the burden for the nurses on your staff by providing easy-open packages, prepackaging of individual doses and much more.
With nurses’ time being so precious, every little second saved counts.
3. Emergency Delivery Services
When you partner with a long-term care pharmacy, make sure you choose one that offers emergency delivery services. Often, you can’t wait for needed medication to arrive in two or three days.
You and your residents and staff need to know that emergency medication can be delivered quickly; within hours if necessary. This will enable your facility to deliver a higher quality of care that everyone will appreciate.
Don’t settle for less when choosing a long-term care pharmacy partner. Your facility deserves the best pharmacy partner that’s available.
