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CPF Updates
2022 Flip the Pharmacy Award Winners
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
The 2022 winners of Flip the Pharmacy Awards for year three were presented at the 2022 NCPA Annual Convention in Kansas City, Mo.
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Good Neighbor Pharmacy joins as National Sponsor of Flip the Pharmacy
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
ACT Pharmacy Collaborative Spotlighting Community Pharmacies
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
The 50 Stories from 50 States Challenge amplifies the vital patient care services that community pharmacies are providing nationwide.
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The APhA Foundation Awards Incentive Grants to Encourage Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care
Thursday, November 11, 2021
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation today announced the 2021-2022 recipients of the Incentive Grants for Practitioner Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care. A total of 34 pharmacists and student pharmacists were selected to receive the $1000 Incentive Grants that annually provide seed funds to initiate or sustain innovative community-based projects that advance pharmacist-delivered patient care services.
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CPF Announces Teams Selected for Flip the Pharmacy
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Cohort 3 teams have been selected for participation in the two-year Flip the Pharmacy program.
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Research Group Issues Call to Nation's Top Leaders, Experts and Scholars to Join Fast-Track Research Study
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
The University of Louisville Center for Health Organization Transformation (CHOT), a National Science Foundation-funded research center, the Frazier Polypharmacy Program at UofL, and the RAPID Alliance Research Consortium announced the launch of the RAPID Alliance Medications 360 Study to Address $528 Billion Medications and Vaccine Challenge
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PQA & CPF Announce 2021 Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality Awards
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Awards Honor an Individual and Community Pharmacy for Innovative, Pioneering Practices -
the 2021 CPIQ Award recipient in the individual category is Sharrel Pinto, BSPharm, PhD, FAPhA and the community pharmacy category is Bell Pharmacy in Camden, N.J.
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Flip the Pharmacy - Diabetes/SDOH Change Package #2 Released
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
This month's innovations are:
Discuss blood glucose and A1C goals with your patients with diabetes, and
Identify and address gaps in care for you patients with diabetes.
You can proactively use the Diabetes Checklist to help with clinical considerations related to care gaps and ideas for workflow and documentation. Or, refer to the ideas for addressing care gaps by incorporating MTM and EQuIPP into your pharmacy’s workflow.
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Parata Systems Becomes Flip the Pharmacy National Program Sponsor
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
The sponsorship signals commitment to the future of community-based pharmacy. Flip the Pharmacy, a 5-year pharmacy transformation program impacting thousands of community-based pharmacies, announced today that Parata Systems, a leading provider of pharmacy automation, including vial-filling, adherence packaging, and workflow and patient experience solutions, has become a national program sponsor.
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Flip the Pharmacy Announces Award Winners
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Year 1 winners - Team of the Year: Team Pennsylvania |Pharmacy of the Year: Norland Avenue Pharmacy, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania | Technology Solutions Provider of the Year: PioneerRx. CARY, N.C. (PRWEB) APRIL 17, 2021
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Flip the Pharmacy Announces Award Winners
Monday, April 19, 2021
Flip the Pharmacy, a 5-year pharmacy transformation program directly supporting over 800 community-based pharmacies and impacting thousands more, announced the winners of its inaugural Flip the Pharmacy Awards. The year one winners are: 1) Pharmacy of the Year: Norland Avenue Pharmacy in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 2)Flip the Pharmacy Team of the Year: Team Pennsylvania and 3) Technology Solutions Provider of the Year: PioneerRx Pharmacy Software
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Flip the Pharmacy (FtP) March Change Package Available
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
This change package focuses on developing and growing your immunization business model. The baseline workflow provides tips for growing your immunization program through targeted interventions and outreach. The advanced workflow gives information on how to establish medical billing capabilities (i.e. billing Medicare for certain immunizations) or expand to other payers.
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Blog Post - PQA and CPF Bring Health Care Leaders Together to Prioritize Pharmacy Quality Measures for Development
Monday, February 15, 2021
Community Pharmacy Best Practices for COVID-19 Response - Includes FtP COVID-19 Change Packages
Friday, February 5, 2021
CPF / PQA Partner Grant Call for Action: feasibility assessment of innovative pharmacy measure concepts
Friday, January 29, 2021
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA), in collaboration with the Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF), has engaged a multi-stakeholder panel to advance quality measurement for community pharmacy. The PQA team is seeking pharmacy, payer, and system vendor stakeholders to complete a feasibility evaluation tool to objectively assess the data elements associated with each measure concept. The aim is to receive all results by February 19, 2021.
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Press Release : Compliant Pharmacy Alliance (CPA) Invests in FtP
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Compliant Pharmacy Alliance Invests in the Future of Community Pharmacy in America; Supports Flip the Pharmacy Program. Flip the Pharmacy is a five-year pharmacy transformation program aiming to re-work community-based pharmacy practice beyond filling prescriptions and toward an ongoing focus on a patient's health (or more officially, beyond point-in-time, prescription-level transactional models toward longitudinal and patient-level care processes and value-based models).
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CPF/PQA Award - Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (Due Feb 1st)
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
The Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Awards recognize high performance for a pioneering individual practitioner and an innovative community pharmacy practice that result in improvements in quality of care, medication optimization and patient outcomes. The awards are supported by funding from the Community Pharmacy Foundation and presented at the PQA Annual Meeting. Individuals may nominate themselves, their organizations by Feb 1, 2021.
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'Pharmacists, the Unsung Heroes of the Pandemic' Featured in New Vaccine Awareness Campaign
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
We are proud to partner with Mediaplanet for their Vaccines campaign! Around 95 percent of Americans live within 5 miles of a pharmacy. During the pandemic, pharmacies have remained open, serving their communities extensively despite the danger. You can read more in Mediaplanet's new campaign. The campaign, along with more information about other vaccines, was distributed through USA TODAY.
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First COVID-19 Vaccine Change Package - December
Monday, December 14, 2020
This COVID-19 Vaccine Change Package is focused on building infrastructure to offer the COVID -19 Vaccines at pharmacies and to begin providing educational resources. Goals 1) Prepare a community pharmacy to meet the requirements set forth by the Pharmacy Agreement for the CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Program. 2)Become comfortable and confident in the CDC’s COVID -19 Vaccination Program, which is a major public health initiative opportunity for community pharmacy that will assist in getting our count
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APhA Foundation Announces the 2020-2021 Recipients of the Incentive Grants for Practitioner Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Established in 1994, the Incentive Grants for Practitioner Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care is the longest running APhA Foundation program. And to date, funding for more than 650 Incentive Grant projects has been awarded for pharmacists to implement new ways to improve the health outcomes for thousands of patients in communities across the country. CPF has proudly supported the community pharmacy residency incentive grants since 2004.
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Community Pharmacy Foundation Selects Round 2 Flip the Pharmacy Awardees
Friday, August 28, 2020
The Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) today announced the 25 awardee Practice Transformation Teams chosen to participate in the second round (Cohort 2: October 2020 - September 2022) of the Flip the Pharmacy Program. These new teams will join the existing 28 participating Cohort 1 teams and will add approximately 340 more participating pharmacies.
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Flip the Pharmacy - Opioid Progression Change Package #3 Released
Thursday, July 30, 2020
The focus is providing each patient receiving an opioid prescription with an Opioid Pledge that outlines the commitment of the pharmacy and the patient for opioid medications.
Additionally, enhancing non-pharmacist support staff roles within the pharmacy is the second workflow innovation, regardless of health condition focus in the change package. Additional examples and resources are listed on the Flip the Pharmacy website.
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Flip the Pharmacy - Opioid Progression Change Package #2 Released
Monday, July 6, 2020
The goal of July 2020 is to follow up with patients or identify newly eligible patients for candidates of naloxone. If the pharmacy has not implemented a naloxone program, a guide to help is located within the change package. Best practices & additional resources are also listed
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Flip the Pharmacy Round 2 Application Period is Open through August 6, 2020
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Flip the Pharmacy Round 2 (Cohort 2, October 2020 - September 2022) Application Period opened on June 15, 2020, and is open through August 6, 2020. Several application information webinars will occur through June and July. Webinar registration at: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4756970394530974736
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'Flip the Pharmacy Program: Caring for Patients in a Pandemic' is featured in a Pharmacy Times article.
Friday, June 5, 2020
With the recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the Flip the Pharmacy program had to quickly adapt and develop a COVID-19 change package. The FtP team rolled out a series of 4 change packages focused on implementation best-practices.
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Flip the Pharmacy - Opioid Progression Change Package #1 Released
Saturday, May 30, 2020
The FtP program began in October 2019 with the first Progression topic of hypertension. A brief pivot occurred to release content focused on COVID-19. The 2nd Progression begins in June focusing on opioid prescriptions and patient care management. The implementation goal for the month is to identify patients within the Appointment-Based Model who take opioid medications and begin documenting the indication for medication use and calculate Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MME).
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COVID-19 Change Package #4 (5/15/2020)
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
As community-based pharmacies consider reopening, learn what you need to consider when preparing to reopen your pharmacy to the patients you serve in your community while keeping pharmacy staff safe and healthy.
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PQA & CPF Announce 2020 Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality Award Recipients
Friday, May 15, 2020
Awards Honor an Individual and Community Pharmacy for Innovative, Pioneering Practices. The 2020 CPIQ Award recipient in the individual category is Vikram Sundararaman, PharmD, MBA, a Clinical Pharmacy Site Manager for Genoa Healthcare. The 2020 CPIQ Award recipient in the community pharmacy category is The Kroger Company.
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Flip the Pharmacy participant, Pete Kreckel, RPh, at Thompson Pharmacy is featured in a Pharmacy Times article.
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
How Community Pharmacists Can Provide Excellent Patient Care With Support. Pharmacy Times 2020-05-13 10:52:00. Karen Berger, PharmD.
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COVID-19 Change Package #3 (4/8/2020)
Saturday, April 18, 2020
Helps to guide community pharmacies in applying for a CLIA Waiver in a straight-forward guidance document. *A how-to video is provided to help you fill out the form.*
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Flip the Pharmacy initiative featured in NCPA's America's Pharmacist cover story
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Flip the Pharmac's focus is caring for patients in an appointment-based clinical model. Read about the overall program and how coaches team with participating pharmacies to implement change.
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COVID-19 Change Package #2 (4/8/2020)
Friday, April 10, 2020
Objective: This document is intended to provide a stepwise, workflow approach for triaging patients suspected of COVID-19 and to develop a care plan for those patients.
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ACT for Pharmacy News! Blueprint Released and Call to Connect Pharmacies & Students in response to COVID-19.
Friday, March 27, 2020
The ACT Pharmacy Blueprint for Building a National Partnership Collaborative was released during an ACT webinar on Wednesday, March 18, 2020.
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NEWLY RELEASED - Flip the Pharmacy Change Package for COVID-19
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Community pharmacies are currently focusing on protecting pharmacy staff and patients. This requires new workflows (practice transformation). Simultaneously, pharmacies need to be communicating the changes to patients. These topics are addressed in the FtP COVID-19 Change Packages.
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CPF Grant Application Deadline moved to August 11, 2020
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Due to circumstances with the COVID-19 pandemic, the CPF Board will hold a condensed virtual meeting on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Applications will not be reviewed at the May meeting and will automatically be considered at the August meeting. The next CPF application deadline is now Tuesday, August 11, 2020.
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Flip the Pharmacy: Change Package 1: Domain 6, Progression 1 (March 2020) is Available
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
The focus of the March Change Package is to help you better understand how community-based pharmacy fits into measures that impact prescribers. Knowing this information will help you accomplish the ultimate goal of this Domain, which is to better understand your patient data within the pharmacy in a way that you may not have thought about before.
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Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality Awards - Deadline Extended to January 31, 2020
Friday, January 24, 2020
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance and the Community Pharmacy Foundation are pleased to invite nominations for the 2020 Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Awards for categories of 1)Individual and 2) Pharmacy to celebrate innovations in community pharmacy practice that promote improvements in quality of care, medication optimization, and patient outcomes.
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Flip the Pharmacy Initiative Aims to Transform Community Pharmacy (Pharmacy Times - January 2020)
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Recent article about the Flip the Pharmacy program published in Pharmacy Times. The article features FtP participating pharmacist, Beth Bryan, PharmD, owner of Surgoinsville Pharmacy in Tennessee.
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Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality Awards - Nominations by Jan 24, 2020
Thursday, December 19, 2019
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance and the Community Pharmacy Foundation are pleased to invite nominations for the 2020 Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Awards for categories of 1)Individual and 2) Pharmacy to celebrate innovations in community pharmacy practice that promote improvements in quality of care, medication optimization, and patient outcomes.
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Changes to the Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) Board of Directors
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
CPF Selects 2019 Flip the Pharmacy Awardees
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
The Community Pharmacy Foundation today announced the 20 Practice Transformation Teams chosen to participate in the first cohort of the multi-year Flip the Pharmacy Program. Practice Transformation Teams from 27 different states have been selected to participate in Cohort 1.
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The ACT Pharmacy Collaborative Launched at the AACP Pharmacy Education Meeting
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
The ACT (Academia-CPESN Transformation) Pharmacy Collaborative is an operational learning and ACTing collaborative between schools of pharmacy and established clinically integrated networks of community-based pharmacies. Sign up for the newsletter to stay informed of updates and participation opportunities! Partners include CPF, University of Pittsburg School of Pharmacy, CPESN USA and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).
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Community Pharmacy Foundation and CPESN USA Announce Partnership to Flip the Pharmacy
Thursday, June 27, 2019
The Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) and CPESN USA aiming to transform community-based pharmacies through a new dynamic program, "Flip the Pharmacy".
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CPF featured in the June National Health Council (NHC) Member Spotlight
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
PQA & CPF Announce 2019 Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality Award Recipients
Thursday, May 16, 2019
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) and the Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) announced today the recipients of the 2019 Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Awards. The awards honor an individual (Lindsey Valenzuela, PharmD - California) and a community pharmacy (Towncrest Pharmacy - Iowa), whose innovative practices have improved care quality, medication optimization and patient outcomes.
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CPF Expands Staff and Launches a Modernized Website that Engages Visitors and Highlights CPF and its Funding Opportunities
Monday, March 18, 2019
The Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) has launched an updated website that delivers an improved virtual experience intended to streamline content, inform and update visitors, and make grant resources broadly available. In addition, as it continues its path of growth and development, the Foundation has hired a CPF Administrator, Katy Vennum, BS, MPH.
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Article to identify and quantify costs associated with specialty prescriptions by CPF Board Member, Dorinda Martin.
Friday, February 22, 2019
This article by Dorinda Martin, CPF Board Member and independent pharmacist in Austin, Texas, was posted by NCPA explaining how to identify and quantify costs associated with specialty prescriptions. This will help accurately document the additional time and tasks associated with specialty pharmacy for the national cost of dispensing survey that will inform policy questions related to reimbursing costs of dispensing across the US.
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CPF Grantees are Recipients of APhA 2019 Academy Awards
Saturday, February 2, 2019
January 29, 2019 - APhA-APPM Awards - Distinguished Achievement Award in Pharmacy Management - Krystalyn Weaver, PharmD | APhA - APRS Awards: Clinical Research Paper Award - William R. Doucette, PhD; Research Achievement Award in the Pharmaceutical Sciences - Jon C. Schommer, PhD, of Minneapolis, MN.
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CPF Grantees Selected as APhA Fellows - Michelle Chui, Jeff Rochon
Saturday, February 2, 2019
January 24, 2019 - The American Pharmacists Association announced the selection of the APhA Fellows as part of the 2019 APhA Awards and Honors Program.
APhA-APPM Fellow: Jeffrey Rochon, PharmD, of Renton, WA. Rochon, CEO of the Washington State Pharmacy Association
APhA-APRS Fellow: Michelle A. Chui, PharmD, PhD, of Madison, WI.
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The APhA Foundation Awards 2019 Incentive Grants
Thursday, January 24, 2019
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation today announced 30 recipients of its 2019 Incentive Grants. The Incentive Grants program supplies pharmacists with seed money to initiate or support existing innovative patient care services within their pharmacy practice. This year's Incentive Grant projects encompass a variety of topics including mental health, diabetes and vaccinations. CPF is a long-standing co-funder of the Incentive Grants program.
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The Pharmacist eCare Plan Initiative website has launched!
Monday, January 14, 2019
The Pharmacist eCare Plan will serve as a standardized, interoperable document for exchange of consensus-driven prioritized medication-related activities, plans and goals for an individual needing care Pharmacists work in multiple environments. The Pharmacist eCare Plan will be a dynamic plan that contains information on the patient, pharmacist and care team's concerns and goals related to medication optimization.
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Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality Awards - Nominations for Awards due Friday, January 11, 2019
Monday, December 3, 2018
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance and the Community Pharmacy Foundation are pleased to invite nominations for the 2019 Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Awards to celebrate innovations in community pharmacy practice that promote improvements in quality of care, medication optimization, and patient outcomes. The two award categories are for an individual and a pharmacy.
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Osterhaus Family Receives the Inaugural University of Iowa Family Spirit Award
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
On Saturday, Nov. 10, the Osterhauses will be recognized as the inaugural recipients of the University of Iowa's Family Spirit Award at halftime of the Iowa-Northwestern football game. The newly created award recognizes a Hawkeye family spanning at least three generations that supports, or volunteers time to, the University of Iowa and personally or professionally contributes toward bettering the state of Iowa and its communities.
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National Pharmacy Organizations Announce New Campaign Emphasizing the Value of our Nation's Pharmacists
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Learn more about the effort to highlight contributions America's pharmacists make in improving patient lives.
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Changes to the Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) Board of Directors
Friday, August 31, 2018
At the August 22-23, 2018 meeting, the board of the Community Pharmacy Foundation honored the retirement of Robert Osterhaus from the board of directors. Board President Phil Burgess recognized Osterhaus's contributions to CPF during his eighteen years of service. The board appointed Pharmacist Matt Osterhaus, a practicing community pharmacist and a national leader in community pharmacy, to the CPF board of directors.
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APhA Foundation Incentive Grant Program receives boost from the Community Pharmacy Foundation
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
WASHINGTON, DC - The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation announced that the Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) increased funding in support of the APhA Foundation's Incentive Grants for Practitioner Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care. This program provides seed money for innovative pharmacy-based projects. The additional funding bolsters the total number of CPF-matched individual incentive grants awarded from 9 to 14 for the 2018-2019 award cycle.
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UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy's Center for Innovation in Pharmacy Simulation won four Hermes awards for a CPF grant webpage
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
An interactive webpage designed by CIPS won four Hermes Creative Awards on May 18. The page, designed for the Community Pharmacy Foundation, outlines principles of team-based health care. Jason Whitley, M.S.; Joel Floyd, M.S.; and Catherine MacAllister, M.Ed. designed the webpage. It was based on research conducted by postdoctoral researcher Chelsea Renfro, Pharm.D. Whitley is the creative lead for instructional innovation in CIPS, Floyd is a multimedia producer and MacAllister is an instruction
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UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy's Center for Innovation in Pharmacy Simulation won four Hermes awards for CPF funded grant webpage
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
May 19, 2018 - Members from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy's Center for Innovation in Pharmacy Simulation (CIPS) won four Hermes awards and two Telly Awards for web design and videography. An interactive webpage designed by CIPS won four Hermes Creative Awards on May 18. The page, designed as part of a grant deliverable from the Community Pharmacy Foundation, outlines principles of team-based health care.
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PQA and the Community Pharmacy Foundation Announce Winners of the Inaugural Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality Awards
Thursday, May 17, 2018
The newly established CPIQ awards recognize high performance for a pioneering individual (Kari Trapskin, vice president of Health Care Quality Initiatives at the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin) practitioner and an innovative community pharmacy practice (Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio) that result in improvements in quality of care, medication optimization and patient outcomes.
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CPF 2018 Strategic Interests Released!
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
View the updated CPF strategic interests document defining areas of emphasis for grant funding and foundation activities. Innovative community pharmacy practice ideas, particularly with potential for financial sustainability are of interest.
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APhA Announces 2018 Awards and Honors - CPF to receive the H.A.B. Dunning Award
Friday, January 19, 2018
This award recognizes an exemplary contribution to APhA and the practice of pharmacy by a pharmaceutical manufacturer, provider of support products or service, or other entities such as wholesalers, chain corporations, etc. Honorees will be officially recognized at the APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Nashville, TN, March 16-19, 2018.
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Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Awards - Online Nomination Form Available
Monday, January 8, 2018
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) and the Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Awards celebrate innovations in community pharmacy practice that promote improvements in quality of care, medication optimization, and patient outcomes through awards for an individual and pharmacy. The inaugural awards will be presented at the PQA Annual Meeting, May 16-18, 2018 in Baltimore, MD.
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CPF Grantees Present at Medicaid & Public Health Conferences
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Team Members to present research results of ‘Pharmacist Provision of Preconception Care Through Medication Therapy Management’ study at MHPA and APHA conferences.
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The "patients we serve": APhA Foundation presents annual Pinnacle Awards - CPF Recognized
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
CPF Selected for APhA Foundation Pinnacle Award 2017 - Category III - Nonprofit Organization
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
NCPA Innovation Center - Mental Health First Aid Training Scholarship Winners
Friday, July 28, 2017
Article on CPF Funding for Practice Innovation Between Non-Academics and Academics (INNOVATIONS in pharmacy)
Friday, July 28, 2017
H2R, collaborator in the GTMR report, receives 'Gold' in the Hermes Awards for creative professionals
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
CPF Grantee Featured in the April Issue of 'Pharmacy Today' Discussing Pediatrics
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Pharmacists work to make medications safer for pediatric patients. Olufunmilola Abraham, PhD, MS, BSPharm (University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy) published two studies last year in the JAPhA regarding counseling services for pediatric patients and their caregivers.
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CPF Launches New 'Toolkit' on the Website Home Page - Resources for Replicability & Transferability
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
http://communitypharmacyfoundation.org/grants/toolbox.asp
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Article on CPF Grants by Academic Principal Investigators between 2002 and 2014 (INNOVATIONS in pharmacy)
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Isetts B, Olson AW, Kondic A, et al. An Evaluation of the Distribution, Scope, and Impact of Community Pharmacy Foundation Grants Completed by Academic Principal Investigators between 2002 and 2014. Inov Pharm. 2017;8(1): Article 24.
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CPF Grantees Featured on the Cover and in an Article of the March Pharmacy Today
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Read more about grantees, Ashley Abode, Elizabeth Dragatsi and Randy McDonough in the article 'Collaborating with prescribers: Pharmacists offer advice from the front lines.' Pharmacy Today | March 2017, Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages 38-41.
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Tennessee Pharmacists Association Receives CPF Grant to Study Integration of Community Pharmacists in Primary Care
Monday, March 6, 2017
Look and Look Again -- Getting to Know the Community Pharmacy Foundation
Saturday, March 4, 2017
New blog post from Dr. Terry McInnis: Get the medications right. Save lives. It's really that simple.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
New report available now: Get the medications right explores comprehensive medication managementt; identifies barriers, opportunities and lessons
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
APhA Foundation Incentive Grants 2016 - Ground Breaking Patient Care Services
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Survey: Advanced Medication Therapy Management Services
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Health2 Resources, Blue Thorn Consulting to explore transformative role of community pharmacists in comprehensive medication management
Thursday, November 19, 2015
ACPE Engages Stakeholders on Advancing Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Study Raises Mail Order Pharmacy Patient Adherence, Dispensing Questions
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Pharmacy Quality Alliance's EPIQ Program Selected as AHI 2015 Duncan Neuhauser Award Winner
Thursday, August 27, 2015
NASPA-Convened Workgroup Develops Collaborative Practice Authority Recommendations
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Announcing The Community Pharmacy Foundation's Website Enhancements AND Redesigned Logo
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Community Pharmacy Foundation Appoints New Executive Director
Thursday, January 22, 2015
2022 Flip the Pharmacy Award Winners
The 2022 winners of Flip the Pharmacy Awards for year three were presented at the 2022 NCPA Annual Convention in Kansas City, Mo.
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ACT Pharmacy Collaborative Spotlighting Community Pharmacies
The 50 Stories from 50 States Challenge amplifies the vital patient care services that community pharmacies are providing nationwide.
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The APhA Foundation Awards Incentive Grants to Encourage Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation today announced the 2021-2022 recipients of the Incentive Grants for Practitioner Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care. A total of 34 pharmacists and student pharmacists were selected to receive the $1000 Incentive Grants that annually provide seed funds to initiate or sustain innovative community-based projects that advance pharmacist-delivered patient care services.
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CPF Announces Teams Selected for Flip the Pharmacy
Cohort 3 teams have been selected for participation in the two-year Flip the Pharmacy program.
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Research Group Issues Call to Nation's Top Leaders, Experts and Scholars to Join Fast-Track Research Study
The University of Louisville Center for Health Organization Transformation (CHOT), a National Science Foundation-funded research center, the Frazier Polypharmacy Program at UofL, and the RAPID Alliance Research Consortium announced the launch of the RAPID Alliance Medications 360 Study to Address $528 Billion Medications and Vaccine Challenge
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PQA & CPF Announce 2021 Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality Awards
Awards Honor an Individual and Community Pharmacy for Innovative, Pioneering Practices -
the 2021 CPIQ Award recipient in the individual category is Sharrel Pinto, BSPharm, PhD, FAPhA and the community pharmacy category is Bell Pharmacy in Camden, N.J.
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Flip the Pharmacy - Diabetes/SDOH Change Package #2 Released
This month's innovations are:
Discuss blood glucose and A1C goals with your patients with diabetes, and
Identify and address gaps in care for you patients with diabetes.
You can proactively use the Diabetes Checklist to help with clinical considerations related to care gaps and ideas for workflow and documentation. Or, refer to the ideas for addressing care gaps by incorporating MTM and EQuIPP into your pharmacy’s workflow.
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Parata Systems Becomes Flip the Pharmacy National Program Sponsor
The sponsorship signals commitment to the future of community-based pharmacy. Flip the Pharmacy, a 5-year pharmacy transformation program impacting thousands of community-based pharmacies, announced today that Parata Systems, a leading provider of pharmacy automation, including vial-filling, adherence packaging, and workflow and patient experience solutions, has become a national program sponsor.
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Flip the Pharmacy Announces Award Winners
Year 1 winners - Team of the Year: Team Pennsylvania |Pharmacy of the Year: Norland Avenue Pharmacy, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania | Technology Solutions Provider of the Year: PioneerRx. CARY, N.C. (PRWEB) APRIL 17, 2021
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Flip the Pharmacy Announces Award Winners
Flip the Pharmacy, a 5-year pharmacy transformation program directly supporting over 800 community-based pharmacies and impacting thousands more, announced the winners of its inaugural Flip the Pharmacy Awards. The year one winners are: 1) Pharmacy of the Year: Norland Avenue Pharmacy in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 2)Flip the Pharmacy Team of the Year: Team Pennsylvania and 3) Technology Solutions Provider of the Year: PioneerRx Pharmacy Software
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Flip the Pharmacy (FtP) March Change Package Available
This change package focuses on developing and growing your immunization business model. The baseline workflow provides tips for growing your immunization program through targeted interventions and outreach. The advanced workflow gives information on how to establish medical billing capabilities (i.e. billing Medicare for certain immunizations) or expand to other payers.
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Blog Post - PQA and CPF Bring Health Care Leaders Together to Prioritize Pharmacy Quality Measures for Development
Community Pharmacy Best Practices for COVID-19 Response - Includes FtP COVID-19 Change Packages
CPF / PQA Partner Grant Call for Action: feasibility assessment of innovative pharmacy measure concepts
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA), in collaboration with the Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF), has engaged a multi-stakeholder panel to advance quality measurement for community pharmacy. The PQA team is seeking pharmacy, payer, and system vendor stakeholders to complete a feasibility evaluation tool to objectively assess the data elements associated with each measure concept. The aim is to receive all results by February 19, 2021.
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Press Release : Compliant Pharmacy Alliance (CPA) Invests in FtP
Compliant Pharmacy Alliance Invests in the Future of Community Pharmacy in America; Supports Flip the Pharmacy Program. Flip the Pharmacy is a five-year pharmacy transformation program aiming to re-work community-based pharmacy practice beyond filling prescriptions and toward an ongoing focus on a patient's health (or more officially, beyond point-in-time, prescription-level transactional models toward longitudinal and patient-level care processes and value-based models).
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CPF/PQA Award - Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (Due Feb 1st)
The Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Awards recognize high performance for a pioneering individual practitioner and an innovative community pharmacy practice that result in improvements in quality of care, medication optimization and patient outcomes. The awards are supported by funding from the Community Pharmacy Foundation and presented at the PQA Annual Meeting. Individuals may nominate themselves, their organizations by Feb 1, 2021.
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'Pharmacists, the Unsung Heroes of the Pandemic' Featured in New Vaccine Awareness Campaign
We are proud to partner with Mediaplanet for their Vaccines campaign! Around 95 percent of Americans live within 5 miles of a pharmacy. During the pandemic, pharmacies have remained open, serving their communities extensively despite the danger. You can read more in Mediaplanet's new campaign. The campaign, along with more information about other vaccines, was distributed through USA TODAY.
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First COVID-19 Vaccine Change Package - December
This COVID-19 Vaccine Change Package is focused on building infrastructure to offer the COVID -19 Vaccines at pharmacies and to begin providing educational resources. Goals 1) Prepare a community pharmacy to meet the requirements set forth by the Pharmacy Agreement for the CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Program. 2)Become comfortable and confident in the CDC’s COVID -19 Vaccination Program, which is a major public health initiative opportunity for community pharmacy that will assist in getting our count
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APhA Foundation Announces the 2020-2021 Recipients of the Incentive Grants for Practitioner Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care
Established in 1994, the Incentive Grants for Practitioner Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care is the longest running APhA Foundation program. And to date, funding for more than 650 Incentive Grant projects has been awarded for pharmacists to implement new ways to improve the health outcomes for thousands of patients in communities across the country. CPF has proudly supported the community pharmacy residency incentive grants since 2004.
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Community Pharmacy Foundation Selects Round 2 Flip the Pharmacy Awardees
The Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) today announced the 25 awardee Practice Transformation Teams chosen to participate in the second round (Cohort 2: October 2020 - September 2022) of the Flip the Pharmacy Program. These new teams will join the existing 28 participating Cohort 1 teams and will add approximately 340 more participating pharmacies.
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Flip the Pharmacy - Opioid Progression Change Package #3 Released
The focus is providing each patient receiving an opioid prescription with an Opioid Pledge that outlines the commitment of the pharmacy and the patient for opioid medications.
Additionally, enhancing non-pharmacist support staff roles within the pharmacy is the second workflow innovation, regardless of health condition focus in the change package. Additional examples and resources are listed on the Flip the Pharmacy website.
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Flip the Pharmacy - Opioid Progression Change Package #2 Released
The goal of July 2020 is to follow up with patients or identify newly eligible patients for candidates of naloxone. If the pharmacy has not implemented a naloxone program, a guide to help is located within the change package. Best practices & additional resources are also listed
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Flip the Pharmacy Round 2 Application Period is Open through August 6, 2020
Flip the Pharmacy Round 2 (Cohort 2, October 2020 - September 2022) Application Period opened on June 15, 2020, and is open through August 6, 2020. Several application information webinars will occur through June and July. Webinar registration at: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4756970394530974736
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'Flip the Pharmacy Program: Caring for Patients in a Pandemic' is featured in a Pharmacy Times article.
With the recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the Flip the Pharmacy program had to quickly adapt and develop a COVID-19 change package. The FtP team rolled out a series of 4 change packages focused on implementation best-practices.
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Flip the Pharmacy - Opioid Progression Change Package #1 Released
The FtP program began in October 2019 with the first Progression topic of hypertension. A brief pivot occurred to release content focused on COVID-19. The 2nd Progression begins in June focusing on opioid prescriptions and patient care management. The implementation goal for the month is to identify patients within the Appointment-Based Model who take opioid medications and begin documenting the indication for medication use and calculate Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MME).
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COVID-19 Change Package #4 (5/15/2020)
As community-based pharmacies consider reopening, learn what you need to consider when preparing to reopen your pharmacy to the patients you serve in your community while keeping pharmacy staff safe and healthy.
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PQA & CPF Announce 2020 Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality Award Recipients
Awards Honor an Individual and Community Pharmacy for Innovative, Pioneering Practices. The 2020 CPIQ Award recipient in the individual category is Vikram Sundararaman, PharmD, MBA, a Clinical Pharmacy Site Manager for Genoa Healthcare. The 2020 CPIQ Award recipient in the community pharmacy category is The Kroger Company.
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Flip the Pharmacy participant, Pete Kreckel, RPh, at Thompson Pharmacy is featured in a Pharmacy Times article.
How Community Pharmacists Can Provide Excellent Patient Care With Support. Pharmacy Times 2020-05-13 10:52:00. Karen Berger, PharmD.
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COVID-19 Change Package #3 (4/8/2020)
Helps to guide community pharmacies in applying for a CLIA Waiver in a straight-forward guidance document. *A how-to video is provided to help you fill out the form.*
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Flip the Pharmacy initiative featured in NCPA's America's Pharmacist cover story
Flip the Pharmac's focus is caring for patients in an appointment-based clinical model. Read about the overall program and how coaches team with participating pharmacies to implement change.
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COVID-19 Change Package #2 (4/8/2020)
Objective: This document is intended to provide a stepwise, workflow approach for triaging patients suspected of COVID-19 and to develop a care plan for those patients.
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ACT for Pharmacy News! Blueprint Released and Call to Connect Pharmacies & Students in response to COVID-19.
The ACT Pharmacy Blueprint for Building a National Partnership Collaborative was released during an ACT webinar on Wednesday, March 18, 2020.
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NEWLY RELEASED - Flip the Pharmacy Change Package for COVID-19
Community pharmacies are currently focusing on protecting pharmacy staff and patients. This requires new workflows (practice transformation). Simultaneously, pharmacies need to be communicating the changes to patients. These topics are addressed in the FtP COVID-19 Change Packages.
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CPF Grant Application Deadline moved to August 11, 2020
Due to circumstances with the COVID-19 pandemic, the CPF Board will hold a condensed virtual meeting on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Applications will not be reviewed at the May meeting and will automatically be considered at the August meeting. The next CPF application deadline is now Tuesday, August 11, 2020.
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Flip the Pharmacy: Change Package 1: Domain 6, Progression 1 (March 2020) is Available
The focus of the March Change Package is to help you better understand how community-based pharmacy fits into measures that impact prescribers. Knowing this information will help you accomplish the ultimate goal of this Domain, which is to better understand your patient data within the pharmacy in a way that you may not have thought about before.
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Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality Awards - Deadline Extended to January 31, 2020
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance and the Community Pharmacy Foundation are pleased to invite nominations for the 2020 Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Awards for categories of 1)Individual and 2) Pharmacy to celebrate innovations in community pharmacy practice that promote improvements in quality of care, medication optimization, and patient outcomes.
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Flip the Pharmacy Initiative Aims to Transform Community Pharmacy (Pharmacy Times - January 2020)
Recent article about the Flip the Pharmacy program published in Pharmacy Times. The article features FtP participating pharmacist, Beth Bryan, PharmD, owner of Surgoinsville Pharmacy in Tennessee.
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Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality Awards - Nominations by Jan 24, 2020
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance and the Community Pharmacy Foundation are pleased to invite nominations for the 2020 Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Awards for categories of 1)Individual and 2) Pharmacy to celebrate innovations in community pharmacy practice that promote improvements in quality of care, medication optimization, and patient outcomes.
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CPF Selects 2019 Flip the Pharmacy Awardees
The Community Pharmacy Foundation today announced the 20 Practice Transformation Teams chosen to participate in the first cohort of the multi-year Flip the Pharmacy Program. Practice Transformation Teams from 27 different states have been selected to participate in Cohort 1.
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The ACT Pharmacy Collaborative Launched at the AACP Pharmacy Education Meeting
The ACT (Academia-CPESN Transformation) Pharmacy Collaborative is an operational learning and ACTing collaborative between schools of pharmacy and established clinically integrated networks of community-based pharmacies. Sign up for the newsletter to stay informed of updates and participation opportunities! Partners include CPF, University of Pittsburg School of Pharmacy, CPESN USA and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).
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Community Pharmacy Foundation and CPESN USA Announce Partnership to Flip the Pharmacy
The Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) and CPESN USA aiming to transform community-based pharmacies through a new dynamic program, "Flip the Pharmacy".
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PQA & CPF Announce 2019 Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality Award Recipients
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) and the Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) announced today the recipients of the 2019 Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Awards. The awards honor an individual (Lindsey Valenzuela, PharmD - California) and a community pharmacy (Towncrest Pharmacy - Iowa), whose innovative practices have improved care quality, medication optimization and patient outcomes.
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CPF Expands Staff and Launches a Modernized Website that Engages Visitors and Highlights CPF and its Funding Opportunities
The Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) has launched an updated website that delivers an improved virtual experience intended to streamline content, inform and update visitors, and make grant resources broadly available. In addition, as it continues its path of growth and development, the Foundation has hired a CPF Administrator, Katy Vennum, BS, MPH.
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Article to identify and quantify costs associated with specialty prescriptions by CPF Board Member, Dorinda Martin.
This article by Dorinda Martin, CPF Board Member and independent pharmacist in Austin, Texas, was posted by NCPA explaining how to identify and quantify costs associated with specialty prescriptions. This will help accurately document the additional time and tasks associated with specialty pharmacy for the national cost of dispensing survey that will inform policy questions related to reimbursing costs of dispensing across the US.
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CPF Grantees are Recipients of APhA 2019 Academy Awards
January 29, 2019 - APhA-APPM Awards - Distinguished Achievement Award in Pharmacy Management - Krystalyn Weaver, PharmD | APhA - APRS Awards: Clinical Research Paper Award - William R. Doucette, PhD; Research Achievement Award in the Pharmaceutical Sciences - Jon C. Schommer, PhD, of Minneapolis, MN.
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CPF Grantees Selected as APhA Fellows - Michelle Chui, Jeff Rochon
January 24, 2019 - The American Pharmacists Association announced the selection of the APhA Fellows as part of the 2019 APhA Awards and Honors Program.
APhA-APPM Fellow: Jeffrey Rochon, PharmD, of Renton, WA. Rochon, CEO of the Washington State Pharmacy Association
APhA-APRS Fellow: Michelle A. Chui, PharmD, PhD, of Madison, WI.
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The APhA Foundation Awards 2019 Incentive Grants
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation today announced 30 recipients of its 2019 Incentive Grants. The Incentive Grants program supplies pharmacists with seed money to initiate or support existing innovative patient care services within their pharmacy practice. This year's Incentive Grant projects encompass a variety of topics including mental health, diabetes and vaccinations. CPF is a long-standing co-funder of the Incentive Grants program.
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The Pharmacist eCare Plan Initiative website has launched!
The Pharmacist eCare Plan will serve as a standardized, interoperable document for exchange of consensus-driven prioritized medication-related activities, plans and goals for an individual needing care Pharmacists work in multiple environments. The Pharmacist eCare Plan will be a dynamic plan that contains information on the patient, pharmacist and care team's concerns and goals related to medication optimization.
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Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality Awards - Nominations for Awards due Friday, January 11, 2019
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance and the Community Pharmacy Foundation are pleased to invite nominations for the 2019 Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Awards to celebrate innovations in community pharmacy practice that promote improvements in quality of care, medication optimization, and patient outcomes. The two award categories are for an individual and a pharmacy.
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Osterhaus Family Receives the Inaugural University of Iowa Family Spirit Award
On Saturday, Nov. 10, the Osterhauses will be recognized as the inaugural recipients of the University of Iowa's Family Spirit Award at halftime of the Iowa-Northwestern football game. The newly created award recognizes a Hawkeye family spanning at least three generations that supports, or volunteers time to, the University of Iowa and personally or professionally contributes toward bettering the state of Iowa and its communities.
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National Pharmacy Organizations Announce New Campaign Emphasizing the Value of our Nation's Pharmacists
Learn more about the effort to highlight contributions America's pharmacists make in improving patient lives.
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Changes to the Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) Board of Directors
At the August 22-23, 2018 meeting, the board of the Community Pharmacy Foundation honored the retirement of Robert Osterhaus from the board of directors. Board President Phil Burgess recognized Osterhaus's contributions to CPF during his eighteen years of service. The board appointed Pharmacist Matt Osterhaus, a practicing community pharmacist and a national leader in community pharmacy, to the CPF board of directors.
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APhA Foundation Incentive Grant Program receives boost from the Community Pharmacy Foundation
WASHINGTON, DC - The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation announced that the Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) increased funding in support of the APhA Foundation's Incentive Grants for Practitioner Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care. This program provides seed money for innovative pharmacy-based projects. The additional funding bolsters the total number of CPF-matched individual incentive grants awarded from 9 to 14 for the 2018-2019 award cycle.
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UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy's Center for Innovation in Pharmacy Simulation won four Hermes awards for a CPF grant webpage
An interactive webpage designed by CIPS won four Hermes Creative Awards on May 18. The page, designed for the Community Pharmacy Foundation, outlines principles of team-based health care. Jason Whitley, M.S.; Joel Floyd, M.S.; and Catherine MacAllister, M.Ed. designed the webpage. It was based on research conducted by postdoctoral researcher Chelsea Renfro, Pharm.D. Whitley is the creative lead for instructional innovation in CIPS, Floyd is a multimedia producer and MacAllister is an instruction
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UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy's Center for Innovation in Pharmacy Simulation won four Hermes awards for CPF funded grant webpage
May 19, 2018 - Members from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy's Center for Innovation in Pharmacy Simulation (CIPS) won four Hermes awards and two Telly Awards for web design and videography. An interactive webpage designed by CIPS won four Hermes Creative Awards on May 18. The page, designed as part of a grant deliverable from the Community Pharmacy Foundation, outlines principles of team-based health care.
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PQA and the Community Pharmacy Foundation Announce Winners of the Inaugural Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality Awards
The newly established CPIQ awards recognize high performance for a pioneering individual (Kari Trapskin, vice president of Health Care Quality Initiatives at the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin) practitioner and an innovative community pharmacy practice (Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio) that result in improvements in quality of care, medication optimization and patient outcomes.
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CPF 2018 Strategic Interests Released!
View the updated CPF strategic interests document defining areas of emphasis for grant funding and foundation activities. Innovative community pharmacy practice ideas, particularly with potential for financial sustainability are of interest.
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APhA Announces 2018 Awards and Honors - CPF to receive the H.A.B. Dunning Award
This award recognizes an exemplary contribution to APhA and the practice of pharmacy by a pharmaceutical manufacturer, provider of support products or service, or other entities such as wholesalers, chain corporations, etc. Honorees will be officially recognized at the APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Nashville, TN, March 16-19, 2018.
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Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Awards - Online Nomination Form Available
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) and the Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Awards celebrate innovations in community pharmacy practice that promote improvements in quality of care, medication optimization, and patient outcomes through awards for an individual and pharmacy. The inaugural awards will be presented at the PQA Annual Meeting, May 16-18, 2018 in Baltimore, MD.
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CPF Grantees Present at Medicaid & Public Health Conferences
Team Members to present research results of ‘Pharmacist Provision of Preconception Care Through Medication Therapy Management’ study at MHPA and APHA conferences.
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The "patients we serve": APhA Foundation presents annual Pinnacle Awards - CPF Recognized
CPF Selected for APhA Foundation Pinnacle Award 2017 - Category III - Nonprofit Organization
Article on CPF Funding for Practice Innovation Between Non-Academics and Academics (INNOVATIONS in pharmacy)
H2R, collaborator in the GTMR report, receives 'Gold' in the Hermes Awards for creative professionals
CPF Grantee Featured in the April Issue of 'Pharmacy Today' Discussing Pediatrics
Pharmacists work to make medications safer for pediatric patients. Olufunmilola Abraham, PhD, MS, BSPharm (University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy) published two studies last year in the JAPhA regarding counseling services for pediatric patients and their caregivers.
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CPF Launches New 'Toolkit' on the Website Home Page - Resources for Replicability & Transferability
http://communitypharmacyfoundation.org/grants/toolbox.asp
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Article on CPF Grants by Academic Principal Investigators between 2002 and 2014 (INNOVATIONS in pharmacy)
Isetts B, Olson AW, Kondic A, et al. An Evaluation of the Distribution, Scope, and Impact of Community Pharmacy Foundation Grants Completed by Academic Principal Investigators between 2002 and 2014. Inov Pharm. 2017;8(1): Article 24.
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CPF Grantees Featured on the Cover and in an Article of the March Pharmacy Today
Read more about grantees, Ashley Abode, Elizabeth Dragatsi and Randy McDonough in the article 'Collaborating with prescribers: Pharmacists offer advice from the front lines.' Pharmacy Today | March 2017, Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages 38-41.
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