Continuing proactive engagement with the nation’s governors and state executive teams that has remained a priority throughout the pandemic, NACDS this week urged states to take actions that will help ensure patients have ready access to vaccines from their trusted pharmacies and pharmacists.
On Wednesday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed HB791 into law, the end result of a joint advocacy push between NACDS and Georgia industry stakeholders.
Letter to National Governors Association leaders and all governors stresses the importance of establishing certainty that flexibilities established early in the pandemic will be sustained.
Boutte brings to this critical role a 20-year career including chain pharmacy practice and key roles in government, at a health plan, and at NACDS.
The Community Pharmacy Association of New York State and NACDS are hailing a new law that will ensure pharmacists can provide to New Yorkers the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available.
Full preparedness for pharmacist-provided flu vaccines also a priority as flu and coronavirus could collide this Fall.
NACDS requested clarity on this key issue as pharmacies and pharmacists continue to ramp up testing to protect public health and reopen America.
The State of Maryland has taken another important step forward to enhance the security of controlled-substances prescriptions and to reduce the likelihood of fraudulent prescribing.
Gov. Cuomo has taken game-changing action with his executive order authorizing pharmacists to order and administer COVID-19 tests.
Building off a recent effort to allow pharmacists to test and treat for flu and strep in Florida, the Governor took another important action by directing the state’s Surgeon General to allow licensed pharmacists to order and administer COVID-19 tests.
