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[Interview ] Opportunities for Pharmacists Working in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)

4/18/2017

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Elevate Pharmacy Virtual Summit: Day 3 Session 2

Kate Morton completed her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy. Following graduation, she completed a PGY-1 Community Pharmacy Residency through UTEP/UT Austin Cooperative Pharmacy Program at Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe, an FQHC along the US-Mexico border. Currently, Kate is the Director of Pharmacy Services at Southwest CARE Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her professional interests include: Community health, opioid overdose prevention, HIV, clinical pharmacy services.

Learn more on about Southwest CARE Center on their website.

Key Takeaways:
  • Kate's job as a bi-lingual clinical pharmacist running diabetes, anticoag, health fairs and MTM services in the amb care setting during her residency at a FQHC
  • How to create opportunities for yourself as an independent consultant in a FQHC
  • Ways to leverage 340B programs as a cost-saving program in order to cover a clinical pharmacist salary
  • Assessing patient's clinical outcomes in the HIV/HepC population
  • Billing pharmacists services to Ryan White grant funding
  • Creative ways to justify and fund pharmacist-led clinical services
  • Barriers to dispensing naloxone in the community pharmacy setting and how Kate's team helped to overcome those barriers
  • The "peer-to-peer" training program that helped evaluate workflow, improve efficiency of clinical services in general and increase the number of pharmacist-prescribed naloxone orders
  • How the state-wide standing order impacted patient access to naloxone by giving all pharmacists prescriptive authority
  • How to show our value as pharmacists and educating other healthcare professionals by "shadowing"​

If you have any questions about this interview, come see me in our private Facebook community (link to join in your first email upon registration).

I hope to see you soon and look forward to hearing your ideas and plans to Elevate our profession.


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​ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Blair Green Thielemier, PharmD is an independent consultant pharmacist living in Arkansas with her husband and daughter. Her latest project is the first-ever virtual pharmacy conference, the Elevate Pharmacy Virtual Summit. She is also the founder of Pharmapreneur Academy, an online e-Course and Community where she guides pharmacist-entrepreneurs through the process and barriers of building a pharmacy consulting business. She is the author of How to Build a Pharmacy Consulting Business, a contributing author for Pharmacy Times and guest host on the Pharmacy Podcast.  More information about Dr. Thielemier can be found on her website.
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​P.S.   My goal is to reach 10,000 pharmacists this year. Will you help me by sharing this Summit with your network? I truly appreciate your help! #ELEVATEPHARMACY2017
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Sinu Saju
4/19/2017 04:26:35 am

May i know if a Pharm.D student like me in India can get job pls.

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