So much can be said about the heroism of pharmacists who serve their communities each and every day. As October’s celebration of American Pharmacists Month arrives, I have been flooded by seemingly millions of thoughts about their amazing work and the response it deserves.
Event focuses on compelling content and innovative features like the new NACDS Market Exchange – while eagerly anticipating in-person conferences in 2022.
As the nation continues to combat the COVID-19 virus and emerging variants, it remains more important than ever for Americans to stay current with vaccinations and other critical health and wellness needs.
Newly-enacted laws empower pharmacists to focus their time on patients and clinical care, extend Iowans’ access to routine vaccinations and point-of-care testing; Iowa Governor takes action to protect viability of community retail pharmacies throughout the state and the patients they serve.
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.
