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Pharmacy Systems, Inc.

Hospital Pharmacy Management and Consulting Services

Since 1973, Pharmacy Systems, Inc. has provided hospital pharmacy management services to:

• Large Health Systems
• Academic Medical Centers
• Small & Medium Acute Care Hospitals
• Long Term Acute Care Hospitals
• Psychiatric Hospitals
• Specialty Hospitals
• Surgical Hospitals
• Outpatient Ambulatory Care Pharmacies

Pharmacy Systems, Inc. is the largest provider of hospital pharmacy management services in the Midwest.

Pharmacy Systems, Inc. Pharmacy Management Services are customized to meet each clients needs. Our programs and services focus on:

• Managing and recruiting staff.
• Reducing drug costs and implementing inventory control through our proprietary clinical programs.
• Improving operational efficiency through best practices, knowledge and expertise.
• Professional Development (Competency/Needs Assessments, Live and Self Study Educational Offerings, Nursing In-Services, etc.).
• Regulatory compliance (JCAHO, HFAP, and State Board of Pharmacy).
• Proven experience in pharmacy automation (bar coding, cabinetry needs assessment, etc.).
• Benchmarking in all areas of operation.

Managing a pharmacy is a complicated business.

A Director of Pharmacy must supervise:

• Day to Day Operations
• Expense Management
• Inventory Control
• Drug Distribution
• Clinical Initiatives
• Staff Development

Also, they must be knowledgeable about:

• Reimbursement Structure in order to establish budgets.
• Automation needs and solutions.
• Local, State and Federal laws, regulations, and accreditation standards.

Finally, a Director of Pharmacy needs to lead a department that delivers outstanding service to your patients, physicians, nurses and other support staff.

No ONE individual Director of Pharmacy on their own can posses all these skills.

CPS is the nation's leading Pharmacy services provider to hospitals and integrated health systems. With 1,600+ service level Pharmacy professional employees and greater than 250 client facilities in over 40 states (including the Caribbean and USVI), CPS offers flexible sets of services to enhance Pharmacy operational and financial performance through individual implementation projects and unique-to-market Pharmacy management alternatives.

In addition to our industry-best Pharmacy operations and clinical implementation teams, CPS has developed proprietary systems, programs and initiatives for improved Pharmacy department operations and performance - benefiting our client facilities through accessing measurable, proven strategies which are customizable to each client's unique needs and environment.

• Full Service - Full spectrum of Pharmacy consulting and management services products.
  • From consulting and project work to recruiting, hiring, training and management of a qualified Director of Pharmacy
  • To a full management product, or anywhere in between.
  • CPS has the national scope and resources to meet the most challenging Pharmacy projects.

• Flexible - CPS customizes solution packages based upon our clients' needs
  • CPS does not employ a "template" operational package approach.
  • CPS delivers Pharmacy assessment and implementation services that dial-into our client's prioritized strategies.

• Experience - CPS has a 38+ year track record of improving Pharmacy performance
  • Our clients have the confidence in knowing that their service provider is uniquely qualified to assess and lead significant Pharmacy strategies.

• Results-Driven - We will not meet our goals until the department is exceeding it's goals.
  • Focus on quality and improved patient care.
  • Transparent cost reporting. Our clients know their costs, including what we earn.
  • Performance-based contract structure to ensure incentive alignment.
  • Guaranteed financial and regulatory performance.

• CPS is the fastest growing national Pharmacy services provider. Our clients include:
  • Acute Care Hospitals
  • Health Systems
  • Specialty Hospitals
  • Long Term Acute Care Hospitals
  • Behavioral Hospitals and Health Systems
  • Outpatient / Retail Pharmacy Operations

CPS has developed unique pharmacy services product models that differ, radically, from traditional industry models an introduction to CPS will afford the opportunity to actually improve Pharmacy performance AND benefit the facility financially.

For more information about the services provided by Comprehensive Pharmacy Services, please visit the website provided below.

Maximize your Pharmacy’s Profits

PCCA’s Compounding Pharmacy Management Services (CPMS) provides financial management and marketing services to pharmacists. PCCA is the most-complete resource for USP and NF chemicals, ACPE-accredited training and education, as well as pharmacy, business and marketing consultation necessary for compounding unique dosage forms. With CPMS’s resources and tools, the pharmacy owner is assured of maximizing profit and growing the compounding segment of their business. This “Pharmacists Coaching Pharmacists” service is the only one if its kind and provides one-on-one assistance customized to meet the owner’s needs as well as tools such as the Prescription Profitability Performance Report™ (3PR™), which measures sales, profit and inventory replacement costs for up to 28 different segments of the pharmacy’s prescription business.

Initial analysis have identified an average of $5,000 to $10,000 profit per month being left on the table! CPMS offers Marketing Coach Services, helping the owner to write marketing plans for their practice and put follow-up systems in place for the patient and the physician so that no business is lost! Whether you’re just getting started or planning your exit strategy, CPMS can help with business and logistics planning. New services include: Marketing and Compounding Practice Webinars; and an Annual Cost of Dispensing Study tool.

PharmoPack™ is an automated barcode packaging and labeling system that is technologically advanced with unique and patented features. PharmoPack is simple to use, compact enough to fit in any sized pharmacy, and can provide multi-dose or unit-dose packaging safely and accurately. PharmoPack can interface to all Pharmacy Information Systems, ADC vendor systems, and Supplier Wholesale Systems. PharmoPack includes 5 patents and 14 patents pending and is available in a variety of sizes to meet your unique pharmacy needs. Specific features of PharmoPack are listed below:

Compact Size
PharmoPack is compact in size to fit through all standard doorways. It's patented design provides more packaging capacity in a smaller footprint.

FSP - Free Shape Packaging?
PharmoPack includes a unique Free Shape Packaging System which packages on demand and in sequence and requires no touching or counting of medications during the preparation. The FSP system even recognizes half tablets and includes an on-demand medication counting system. Inventory units not packaged are accurately returned to inventory.

FSP Printer
To maintain accuracy and safety, the FSP printer produces a print receipt to verify the correct medication has been placed in the correct FSP drawer.

MDU - Manual Device Unit
PharmoPack allows you to create trays of medications that require special handling to be packaged. The FSP and MDU can operate simultaneously with canister medications to increase the capacity and variety of medications packaged with PharmoPack.

Modular Design
PharmoPack is easy to use and maintain. The patented modular design enables you to reach every area of the machine for easy medication replenishment and daily cleaning. PharmoPack is a low maintenance solution for high speed medications packaging.

FND and Smart Chip Technology
The FND (Flexible Numeric Display) can show the number of each PharmoPack canister and confirm it's correct position within the machine by reading the Smart Chip on each canister. This allows PharmoPack canisters to be easily identified regardless of their position within the machine.

Equipment Control - Touch Screen
PharmoPack uses a small touch screen on the machine for convenience and safety. The display indicates all processes that are occurring and alerts technicians when medications need to be replenished and when packaging paper and printing ribbon needs to be replaced.

Packaging and Printing
PharmoPack prints all information that is available in the order data fields onto each packet along with your choice of barcode format - linear, data matrix and RSS. Packaging is done quickly at a speed of up to 70 doses per minute.

PharmaSource is different. We're different because we offer a full range of pharmacy services, including in-house and off-site models, backed with tremendous purchasing power. PharmaSource emphasizes our continuous, up-to-date clinical initiatives and best practices.

In-house Pharmacy Management
Through our in-house pharmacy management program, we provide a comprehensive package of pharmacy services, including clinical initiatives and JCAHO compliance programs. PharmaSource can employ the entire pharmacy staff and provide access to our national volume-purchasing program, which is backed by over one billion dollars in annual purchases. We can also furnish computer and automated dispensing systems. PharmaSource's in-house pharmacy option is a perfect model for long-term acute care or full-service hospitals, of all sizes.

Off-site Pharmacy Management
PharmaSource and Omnicare have combined resources allowing us to offer a full pharmacy service option through one of Omnicare's 200 pharmacy locations nationwide. Our off-site pharmacy model is designed for small and rural hospitals, behavioral health, rehabilitation, subacute hospitals and long-term care facilities. This model is designed to minimize in-house inventory management costs, reduce a hospital's overall pharmacy budget and provide superior pharmacy clinical services through our regional network.

Customized Pharmacy Management
Our customized solutions may include versions of either in-house and off-site pharmacy models or a combination of an in-house pharmacy staff with off-site inventory management.

Clinical Services
PharmaSource's clinical services begin with the tried and true basics of formulary management through generic and therapeutic substitution and extend to best practices and clinical guidelines. Clinical drug monitoring and pharmacist interventions are the norm, not the exception. Our pharmacists work within the interdisciplinary teams of the hospital to oversee and improve the medication management process.

For more information about Pharma Source solutions or to contact us, use the links provided below.

The Cardinal Health Solution

Whether it’s finding a talented pharmacy leader, containing drug costs or understanding the impact of new regulatory standards, executives responsible for acute care pharmacies are faced with many challenges. Cardinal Health Pharmacy Management helps acute care hospitals optimize their pharmacy performance through effective management, consistent communication and industry-leading clinical and quality processes. That’s leadership you can trust.

Acquiring and Maintaining a Talented Pharmacy Staff:
With more than 3,000 full-time hospital pharmacy positions remaining vacant in 2004, combined with an annual turnover rate of almost 17%, acute care facilities are continuously in need of talented pharmacy professionals.

Rising Pharmaceutical Costs and Declining Reimbursements:
With a projected increase of 12-15% in drug costs year over year, acute care facilities must find ways to contain pharmacy costs. Due to inaccurate or improperly maintained pharmacy charge masters, hospitals on average are losing 9-16% of their pharmacy charges.

Ensuring Regulatory Compliance and Patient Safety:
Ongoing JCAHO accreditation and regulatory compliance continue to set the standard for patient safety and clinical efficacy. Acute care facilities must continuously evaluate and control clinical processes in order to maintain a high level of compliance.

Implementing Effective Clinical Protocols:
Only 29% of hospitals monitor formulary compliance which can lead to inefficiencies in drug utilization. In fact, 70% of the time a more expensive antibiotic is used than is necessary. Implementing effective clinical protocols is essential to understanding profitability by service line and cost efficiencies in the pharmacy.

Pharmacy Jobs & Career Opportunities in Pharmacy Management and Consulting

RXinsider’s Virtual Pharmacy Job Fair offers the most comprehensive and diverse selection of employers, practice settings and career options of any resource making it the premier career destination for pharmacists, pharmacy students and technicians. Visit the Virtual Pharmacy Job Fair to research pharmacy jobs/career opportunities throughout every pharmacy practice setting including:

• Nuclear / Radiopharmacy
• Long Term Care / LTC
• Clinical
• Hospital / Health System
• Home Infusion
• Temporary and Per-Diem Staffing
• Pharmacy Benefit Management / PBM
• Managed Care
• Telepharmacy
• Medical Science Liaison / MSL
• Specialty Pharmacy
• Management & Consulting
• Independent Community / Retail
• Chain Community / Retail
• Mail Order
• Industry
• Non-traditional… and much more

The Virtual Pharmacy Job Fair serves to educate pharmacy professionals not only on specific job opportunities, but on the employers as well as the practice settings they serve. Visit the Virtual Pharmacy Job Fair today at http://www.RXinsider.com

Advertise on RXinsider’s Virtual Pharmacy Job Fair

For more than 10 years, RXinsider's Virtual Pharmacy Job Fair has helped employers connect with pharmacists throughout the profession. From the largest chains and health systems, to the smallest independent community pharmacies, RXinsider provides employers the best exposure to both passive and active job seekers. With a client base of more than 150, including 17 Fortune100 companies, RXinsider continuously proves to be the leader in pharmacist employment marketing.

With over 350,000 annual visitors, the Virtual Pharmacy Job Fair is the perfect venue for employers to post their career opportunities, build brand awareness and proactively build a database of qualified pharmacy professionals. Benefits of advertising on RXinsider’s Virtual Job Fair include…

• Continuous branding exposure
• Proactive & continuous inquiry and resume generation
• Measurable results/ROI
• Hands-off maintenance

The success of the Virtual Pharmacy Job Fair is attributed to a comprehensive and diverse marketing strategy encompassing multiple media venues including…

• Print - Pharmacy Platinum Pages
• Email - 140k Pharmacy professionals
• Live Trade Shows - 10+ shows attended annually
• Internet - Web Site asset cross-promotion
• Internet - Search engine marketing
• Internet - Social networking

RXinsider offers a diverse portfolio of employment marketing programs that accommodate any budget including:

• Job Fair Booths / Job Postings (annual & 60 day… see our media kit for details)
• Email Blast Campaigns (multiple options for any budget)
• Banner Advertising
• Print / Display Advertising (2010 Pharmacy Platinum Pages)

Contact our Sales Department (Advertising)

Please contact an RXinsider Sales Representative for advertising information:
1-800-972-2083 (sales / advertising inquiries only)
Media kit download: http://www.rxinsider.com/media_kit_download.php

CompleteRx is a leading provider of innovative hospital pharmacy management services to acute care hospitals. Founded in 1998, our experienced management team serves hospitals nationwide, guaranteeing service commitments for regulatory compliance, nursing satisfaction, and education. In addition, CompleteRx assumes the financial risk to control your hospital pharmacy costs.

Our target is superior patient care. Delivering superior patient care requires a strong foundation in the proficiency of the CompleteRx Seven Disciplines of Pharmacy.

People Resources
In addition to our clients, quality people drive the success of our organization. Our corporate specialists provide a unique blend of experience and education in both business and hospital pharmacy disciplines. Furthermore, the CompleteRx Team Covenant is the value system by which we operate. Our resource teams include:

• Operations Management
• Clinical Services
• Patient Safety and Compliance
• Technology and Automation
• Pharmacy Recruiting Services
• On-Site Pharmacy Staff

Operations
CompleteRx delivers a simple, yet systematic approach for managing pharmacy operations through our CompleteRx Operations Methodology. By leveraging this process, we provide a consistent operating structure for achieving optimal performance. The primary deliverables are:

• Executing the initial transition to the CompleteRx operating model
• Defining team roles and responsibilities
• Optimization of the physical site design and space utilization
• Optimization of distribution workflows and automation usage
• Implementation of CompleteRx inventory management
• Establish communication model with the designated hospital report
• Prepare and manage the Value Contract

Technology
The CompleteRx Technology and Automation team maintains extensive experience and working knowledge of many pharmacy technologies. We deliver consultative and independent leadership, service, and guidance as a part of our overall scope of work for projects such as CPOE and bedside scanning. Additionally, our experience and vision for technology reaches well beyond the pharmacy encompassing the perspective of the entire hospital. The Pharmacy department is a critical clinical resource, and must be adaptive and nimble as a working part of the hospital’s system. We best service our hospital clients in this discipline because of this unique perspective.

Patient Safety
The deliberate, independent design of our Patient Safety and Compliance team is critical to ensuring an appropriate check and balance in our organization’s delivery of superior patient care. While we consider Joint Commission and regulatory compliance as a foundation of minimum standards, we must ensure compliance through this independent focus on patient safety. Our Patient Safety Initiative drives our internal independent accountability.

Clinical Program
The cornerstone of our success is our collaborative physician based, pharmacy driven clinical program. Complete Clinical Services™ (CCS) will deliver greater patient safety, leadership, clinical competency, full staff decentralization, “on the spot” education for nurses and physicians, and document validation. By leveraging CCS, pharmacists will develop better relationships with the medical staff and improve patient care. The components of CCS include:

• Nursing Education Services
• SavingsRx™
• Complete Clinician™
• Clinical Advisory Board
• Clinical Levels Program

Finance
While providing quality patient care is our first priority; we are equally committed to delivering cost savings. By targeting operational and clinical opportunities, CompleteRx reduces overall pharmacy costs. “Our focus is providing superior patient care and excellence in medical staff service while saving the hospital money.”

Corporate Support
It is critical to our success as your partner to consistently measure our performance in the discipline of Corporate Support. By ensuring a broad and deep level of support for the Pharmacists, Technicians, and corporate support team members, each individual has the tools and resources necessary to achieve excellence in their role of delivering superior patient care. Corporate support includes:

• Education and professional development training
• Clinical collaboration opportunities
• Collaboration opportunities with the entire CompleteRx family of clients
• Direct access to CompleteRx leadership and support team members
• Ongoing corporate team site visits
• Technology tools and resources

With CompleteRx, you gain a partner that will set a new standard for the level of customer service and the quality of patient care your pharmacy delivers within your hospital.

Regions Served: Nationwide

Principle has reinvented our traditional outsourced pharmacy management model. We now provide hospitals with transparent access to our platform of tools and reporting capabilities that were traditionally proprietary. These advanced tools and reporting capabilities represent the same platform we use to manage over 50 hospital client engagements today. We visually organize a pharmacy's most critical information into actionable data that allows hospitals to better manage and control pharmacy cost.

Our Online Pharmacy Tools encompass a wide range of reporting services that include:

We provide scheduled financial and clinical review WebEx Meetings to review reports and discuss corrective plans and programs when applicable. Our model is designed to provide the right services at the right time.

What makes us different?

Experience, Expertise & Trust
200+ pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and nurses across the United States with experience in all aspects of retail, institutional and specialty pharmacy

Tools & Services
A licensable platform of best practice tools and services that have been the foundation of our success. This new concept allows hospitals to take advantage of industry metric tools and reporting features to produce change and improve operating efficiencies across the service line, without the expense and lack of transparency with traditional outsourced engagements.

Right Services at the Right Time
Our philosophy is to provide tools and implement services to get the platform adopted and then introduce professional service engagements only as needed.

For more information, call 877-778-4300 or click on the link below to visit our website.

Healthcare Consulting Experts

RXinnovate provides Pharmacy Management to hospitals and health care systems. We have over 20 years experience in Pharmacy Management and Clinical Management to support hospital needs. Our interim management team will assure Pharmacy meets and exceeds all state and federal regulatory compliance including JCAHO medication management standards. Our management team will assist Administration in recruiting, interviewing and hiring candidates to fill these positions on a long term basis for the hospital.

RXinnovate has provided interim management to many hospitals and while on site improved existing technology, operational, clinical and financial services. We proactively identify and improve existing services while we work with the hospital team recruit new management. Our role is to support and help the hospital during management transitions, not to take over the Pharmacy.

Management Services

• Interim Director of Pharmacy
• Operations Management
• Clinical Management
• Clinical Coordinators
• Supervisory Management
• Automated Dispensing Coordinators
• Financial and Budget Management
• Purchasing Coordinators

Consulting Background

RXinnovate Consulting is one of the nation's largest pharmacy consulting groups, providing services to hospitals and healthcare systems across the country. Our team is comprised of Pharmacy Consultants with extensive management, technology and clinical experience to provide customers with the best skill sets in the market.

RXinnovate provides consulting services and solutions to support Pharmacy and Nursing with achieving their goals of better patient care. Our services provide the hospital and healthcare practitioners with the highest level of consulting to improve patient care, efficiency, cost and staffing models throughout the medication management process.

Consulting Services

• Automation & Technology Consulting
• Pharmacy Operations Consulting
• Clinical Consulting
• Pharmacy Management
• Drug Diversion Consulting
• Regulatory Auditing

PharmaCare Services is a national pharmacy management and consulting company that was formed in 1996 by hospital pharmacists who helped pioneer the pharmacy outsourcing concept. PharmaCare Services headquarters are located in San Antonio, Texas with regional offices in Texas, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania. With a corporate-based professional staff consisting of Clinical and Licensed Pharmacists, Certified Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacy Purchasing Specialists, the company provides expertise and valuable resources without the addition of full-time employees to a hospital pharmacy.

We service the following practice settings:

• Acute Care Hospitals
• Long Term Acute Care Hospitals
• Psychiatric Hospitals
• Rehabilitation Hospitals
• Surgical Hospitals

Management & Consulting Services:

• ADMINISTRATIVE & OPERATIONS
  • Management and Supervision of Pharmacy Operations
  • Resolves Operational Inefficiencies
  • Improves Medication Distribution Systems
  • Improved Narcotics Control
  • Redesigns Pharmacy Workflow Patterns If Necessary
  • Product / Charge Master Development and Maintenance
  • Reduces Drug Diversion & Pilferage
  • Reduces Medication Dispensing and Administration Errors
  • Improves Computer and Information Systems
  • Provides both Interim & Permanent placement Pharmacy Staff for Hard-To-Fill Positions
  • Pharmacy Design, Lay-out, Set-Up
  • Start-Up for New Hospital Pharmacies
• PHARMACEUTICAL PURCHASING / DRUG PROCUREMENT
  • Implements Inventory Management Programs
  • Purchase and Own Drug Inventory (Assume carrying costs)
  • Pharmaceutical Purchasing / Drug Procurement
  • Improves Pharmacy Billing Accuracy
  • Purchasing Compliance Program
  • Drug Manufacturer Contract Compliance
  • Drug Wholesaler Pricing Compliance and Monitoring
  • Group Purchasing Organization Monitoring
  • Lower Pharmacy Drug Cost per Adjusted Patient Day
• CLINICAL PROGRAMS
  • Antibiotic Use Review
  • Antibiogram Studies
  • Improved Formulary System - Develop, Implement, Manage
  • IV to PO Conversion
  • Therapeutic Substitutions
  • Targeted Drug Interventions
  • Medication Use Evaluations & Monitoring
  • Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee Support
  • Clinical Competence Assessments
  • Clinical Pharmacy Programs
• REGULATORY
  • JCAHO, CARF Survey Preparation
  • <USP> 797 Compliance
  • Guaranteed State Board of Pharmacy and DEA compliance for controlled substances
  • Management of Controlled Substances
  • Responsible for Pharmacy Permits, Licenses, DEA Registration
  • Performance Improvement Programs
• PERSONNEL
  • Permanent Placement & Recruiting Services
  • Pharmacy Interim Staffing Services
  • Human Resource Administration
  • Conducts Competence Assessments
  • Conducts Annual Job Performance Evaluations
  • Management & Clinical Training
  • Pharmacy Continuing Education