Last week, the virtual NACDS Annual Meeting honored NACDS chain and supplier members for empowering America’s response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Keyes: “We’ve shown what pharmacy can do when we work together … We will continue to serve, treat and heal the people of our country through this pandemic, and into the future.”
NACDS and member companies remain committed to pursuing initiatives which cultivate a culture of inclusiveness, diversity, equity, awareness and excellence; partner with Elizabeth Seton High School to strengthen the pipeline for diverse, skilled professionals to enter the pharmacy workforce.
Virtual event brings together traditional drug and grocery chains with between four and 250 locations, and their supplier partners; features insights and collaboration on diverse health-and-wellness and front-end topics.
The NACDS-funded paper — “Exploring the implementation of a novel optimizing care model in the community pharmacy setting” — has received the American Pharmacists Association’s 2021 Wiederholt Prize for Best Published Papers Award for Economic, Social, and Administrative Sciences.
The report outlines three goals: 1) Make hypertension control a priority; 2) Ensure that the places where people live, learn, work and play support hypertension control; and 3) Optimize patient care for hypertension control.
We rightly thank and celebrate pharmacists every October during American Pharmacists Month. They are among the most trusted healthcare professionals and among the most trusted professionals of any type.
The peer-reviewed article – “Community Pharmacy Engagement in Diabetes Prevention: Key Informant Interviews with Pharmacy Executives” – demonstrates the critical value of community pharmacy.
Article extends collaborations between NACDS and University of Pittsburgh, cites pharmacy’s ability to provide preventive services and chronic care management.
To reopen the nation successfully and to suppress future COVID-19 outbreaks, NACDS is urging government actions supporting three key objectives that are crucial for the health of all Americans, related to testing, contact tracing and vaccines or treatments.
