Ensuring the provision of quality post-acute care in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities requires the need to direct and perform an increasingly complex array of medication management regimes and clinical functions. In today’s quality-intensive care environment, this means the expertise of long-term care pharmacies, and the consultant pharmacists out on the front lines of care, have never been more important.
Moreover, this is a primary reason we formed the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition in late 2014. The ever-changing multiplicity of federal laws, regulatory mandates and payment methodologies absolutely requires full-time federal advocacy attention solely devoted to LTC pharmacies and the growing number of patients under our care.
Our long-term public policy successes in Washington – and our members’ long term success in the changing market environment – are predicated not just upon SCPC’s ongoing ability to be a credible, trusted voice on policy, but ensuring we have the capacity, resources, scale and bipartisan policy solutions to actually affect it
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