Hospice Pharmacia:
Passionate for the Appropriate Use of Medication
Hospice Pharmacia provides comprehensive medication management pharmacy services for hospice patients. These services include consultation with palliative care pharmacists; real-time web access to patient medication profiles; evidence-based hospice-specific reference materials; hospice kits; and custom reporting for economic, clinical, and humanistic parameters. Medications are sent directly to each patient’s site of care. Hospice Pharmacia also provides a pharmacy benefits management service, for medications that are obtained from local pharmacies. Hospice Pharmacia offers hospice-specific patient information leaflets and a toll-free patient information phone number.
Proven Cost Savings
Hospice Pharmacia conserves direct, indirect and opportunity costs for hospices. Using the per diem construct, partnering hospices’ future medication expenditures are made stable and predictable. Performance Incentive Programs give hospices additional opportunities to reduce their per diem rates through operational efficiencies including the use of technology.
Documented Outcomes of Care
During the course of a patient’s stay on service, Hospice Pharmacia tracks clinical benchmarks and quality-of-life outcomes on a daily basis. The endpoints and outcomes tracked are specific for the patient’s admitting diagnosis. For instance, pertinent information for terminal cancer patients (approximately 40% of HP patients served) would include: level of pain, level of anxiety, level of constipation, level of nausea and vomiting, ability to interact with family, mood, etc. These endpoints and outcomes are available securely to authorized stakeholders via the on-line tool, Xeris.
Nationally Recognized Quality
HP’s parent company, excelleRx was the first hospice-oriented, prospective medication management and home care pharmacy to be granted accreditation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO). The Company earned a 97%, which is a remarkable score for an organization’s first attempt for Accreditation in September of 2003.
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