McKnight’s Market Leaders Podcast: Optimizing your pharmacy operations
Jun 08, 2022
[Partner content] Looking to increase efficiencies in your staff, optimize facility operations and decrease turnover? In addition to its clinical guidance and programs, Omnicare offers proactive communication...
Cantex’s Peter Longo: Building a gateway to the future through ancillary services
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Kimberly Marselas
May 23, 2022
The ability to care for patients more seamlessly through ancillary services excites referral partners. So do better outcomes facilitated across the continuum and during transitions of care. But it takes...
Healing the LTC industry in a post-COVID-19 world
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Nancy Losben
Jun 23, 2021
As we see the steady — and hopefully permanent — decline of COVID-19 in the U.S., the challenge for the long-term care industry is a comeback. What we can expect is that the comeback will not look...
Pandemic spurs Trilogy to add discount delivery pharmacy benefit for employees
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 06, 2021
Senior living operator Trilogy Health Services has begun offering its approximately 17,000 employees and their dependents a one-source, full-service discount pharmacy benefit through its proprietary pharmacy,...
Omnicare’s Jim Love: COVID vaccine delivery will mirror CVS flu clinic program
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 23, 2020
CVS Health will apply its experience with onsite flu vaccination and COVID-19 testing to its new role as a partner in the federal government’s long-term care COVID-19 vaccination efforts, Omnicare President...
New program gives analytics through personalized reviews
Aug 22, 2018
Turenne PharMedCo has launched the Connect 360 program to give nursing homes and assisted living facilities access to analytics through personalized annual reviews, the company announced.
Unfortunately, turning away opioid addicts might be necessary
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Joan Baird, PharmD, BCGP, FASCP and Blake Griese, JD, PharmD
May 07, 2018
While the practice of turning away opioid addicts may appear heartless, this may be necessary given some of the administrative and regulatory hurdles that exist.
Job well done, Grosso has eye out for next adventure
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James M. Berklan
Apr 12, 2018
Frank Grosso has done a lot in his 67 years. But he’s not done. That much he wants to make abundantly clear.
Congress told: pharmacy distribution reform severely needed
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 14, 2017
The president and CEO of the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition warned the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee on Wednesday that pharmacy benefits managers are bad for business, for both consumers...
Pharmacist sentenced to probation in nursing home drug reuse scheme
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Oct 19, 2017
A former employee of a Pennsylvania pharmacy was sentenced to probation and community service on Tuesday for her role in a scheme to repackage drugs that went unused by area nursing homes.