Focus Grants as referenced by the Community Pharmacy Foundation is an exciting opportunity, primarily for colleges of pharmacy and pharmacy associations to work with CPF in designing a major study/project in collaboration with community pharmacies and pharmacists.

Focus grants to date have involved matching funds and/or in-kind services whereby a college of pharmacy or a state pharmacy association has partnered with a local funding organization (i.e. Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation) or a local health plan or PBM to implement Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services through a network of participating community pharmacies. One such network involves a synchronized group of community pharmacists, some retired and others who perform special patient care services on their days off … in the patient homes, by phone or at a cooperating pharmacy in the area.

Focus grants provide the opportunity for more sizable grant awards in order to implement innovative programs by a network of community pharmacies and pharmacists, for which endeavor includes a strong assessment and evaluation component to measure and validate patient outcomes.

Other Focus Grants awarded to date by the Community Pharmacy Foundation were developed to meet very unique and special needs in the profession at the time –

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Study
Cost of Dispensing Study

Additional information regarding Focus Grants can be found at these links …

CPF FOCUS GRANTS – General Information

CPF FOCUS GRANTS – Completed