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June 13, 2019
Note from Tom: In honor of his emphasis on the power of stories to advance pharmacists’ professional status, APhA President Brad Tice is contributing a monthly guest blog on the topic. Enjoy the second edition!
Wow, what a month! My journey as the APhA President has truly taken off like a rocket!…
June 3, 2019
Several years ago, the APhA Board of Trustees issued a challenge to me and my APhA colleagues: to make APhA bigger, better, and more influential than ever before—not incrementally, but exponentially. They told us, “We want to transform the organization. Tell us what you need to get us there!”
Not…
May 28, 2019
We got some news from CMS this month that was disappointing, but not discouraging.
In its final rule for Medicare Part D, CMS announced that it would not move forward with a proposal to account for pharmacy price concessions—also known as direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) fees—at the point of…
May 14, 2019
Note from Tom: In honor of his emphasis on the power of stories to advance pharmacists’ professional status, APhA President Brad Tice will contribute a monthly guest blog on the topic. Enjoy the first edition!
Wow, how fast a month can go! When speaking at the APhA Annual Meeting in the second…
May 7, 2019
Last week, Walgreens and APhA announced a collaboration with the National Council for Behavioral Health (National Council) to provide Mental Health First Aid training for many Walgreens pharmacists and team members. Mental Health First Aid training will eventually become available to any pharmacist…
April 9, 2019
Imbalances between workforce supply and demand are notoriously difficult to resolve. Market corrections can take decades to work themselves out, and leaving the market to self-correct doesn’t help those who are suffering today. APhA aims to tackle the problem, yet this stuff is hard! Still, our…
March 16, 2019
You may have noticed a resurgence recently of the online dialogue about the safety of pharmacists in the workplace, particularly after a pharmacist and technician were shot and wounded at their Walgreens in Garner, NC.
On APhA’s Facebook page, I shared my own expressions of concern for the victims…
March 11, 2019
We got the news on Friday, March 8, that former APhA Treasurer Tery Baskin had passed away peacefully after battling lymphoma for a year and a half.
In addition to serving as APhA Treasurer and Trustee, Tery was a past president and board member of the APhA Foundation. He was a man who took…
February 26, 2019
We are nearing the close of American Heart Month.
Every pharmacist knows that cardiovascular disease poses a serious threat to our patients and communities. The American Heart Association has released new statistics for 2019 that show at least 48% percent of all adults in the United States have…
January 29, 2019
Every day, more than 100 families suffer the loss of a loved one to an opioid overdose. On November 1, 2018, ours became one of them when my great-niece Chloe Archer lost her battle with opioid use disorder (OUD) at age 24.
Her story is familiar to many of us. Chloe sustained a serious leg injury…