Pcp Vs Walgreens

Goal three by the National Patient Safety Goal for 2014 is to use medicines safely. Many errors occur regularly with medications which is why communication is so important with the doctors, nurses and patients. One process that Joint Commission requires in accredited HCO’s is medication reconciliation “creating the most accurate list possible off all medications a patient is taking, including drug name, dosage, frequency, and route, and comparing that list against the physician’s admission, transfer, and/or discharge orders with the goal of providing correct medications to the patients at all transition points within the hospital (Finkelman & Kenner, 2012, p. 388)”. Ensuring medication reconciliation to the patient, health providers and any new consults that are

Erica Lindsay, PharmD, MBA, JD, is a health care attorney practicing in the greater Chicagoland area. She has worked in pharmacy management and compliance for more than 15 years. Dr. Lindsay consults clients through complex pharmacy regulations and guidelines, including 340B, Medicare and Medicaid billing, and HIPAA compliance. She is on faculty of PharmCon providing instruction on pharmacy legal and regulatory issues. Dr. Lindsay is active in various organizations including the American Bar Association where she is Vice of the Nursing and Allied Healthcare Professionals Task Force and members of the Health Care Compliance Association, Cook County Bar Association, and the Chicago Bar Association. She is a graduate of Florida A&M University

a) Pharmacists have ethical and legal obligations to ensure that the prescriptions they fill are valid, both in that the physician must be prescribing the medication for a valid reason and that the person filling the prescription must be doing so for valid therapeutic reasons (ASHP, 2008; Brushwood, n.d.). The court needs to take these obligations into account, and then must determine whether the frequency with which the prescription was refilled would have required a pharmacist to check with the patient's physician or at least another pharmacist in order to determine if the pattern represented abuse (Brushwood, n.d.). The basic considerations before the court, then, are the pattern of behavior (i.e. prescription refilling) represented in the facts and the relationship of this pattern to the legal and ethical standards of pharmacists. The addition was certainly a foreseeable consequence, and this means that standard applications of negligence torts might also be applicable.

On the other hand, my son can only get his monthly medication at CVS Pharmacy and whenever I pick his medication up or he does, we are treated like brand new customers, there is no personalization. At CVS, after waiting an extended length of time, the pharmacy technician rarely asks me if I have any questions for the pharmacist and if I do she rushes me out, like I am disturbing the flow of operations. My family describes the pharmacy at CVS as a sterile machine; you are treated like a number not an individual. We have tried different CVS Pharmacies around Lakeland, but we get the same old treatment. Both Walgreens and CVS probably handle customer identification data very similar, but Walgreens emphasizes building positive customer relations

A teenage girl drove into a Walgreen's parking lot and went into Walgreen's. She casually shopped in the store like a teenager would and once she was done shopping she checked out at the register. When she received her bags she exited Walgreen's and walked across the parking lot to her car and once she went to get into her car a person came up behind her and put her in the car and the criminal drove off with her and her car. Law enforcement used the surveillance that Walgreen's had. The surveillance showed that when the teenage girl drove into Walgreen's parking lot that a blue F-150 pulled in behind her and parked in the parking lot. Additionally, it showed the man casually walking into Walgreen's and once the teenage girl walked into Walgreen's

Two days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Walgreen's store at the corner of Royal and Iberville streets remained locked. The dairy display case was clearly visible through the widows. It was now 48 hours without electricity, running water, plumbing. The milk, yogurt, and cheeses were beginning to spoil in the 90-degree heat. The owners and managers had locked up the food, water, pampers, and prescriptions and fled the City.Outside Walgreen's windows, residents and tourists grew increasingly thirsty and hungry. The much-promised federal, state and local aid never materialized and the windows at Walgreen's gave way to the looters. There was an alternative. The cops could have broken one small window and distributed the nuts, fruit

Both CVS Corporation and Walgreen Company operate retail drug stores in the United States. In addition to having pharmacies and selling prescription and non-prescription drugs both retailers also sell general merchandise. This includes items like beauty and cosmetic products, convenience foods, household items and film & photofinishing services.

a 44 year old Divorced African Male came into Henry Ford Hospital ED as a walk-in and told the HFHS staff that he was having mental health issues he does still struggle with depression and anxiety. The consumer stated that he initially went into the hospital after his brother was shot twice in the head. At that time the client reports that he was placed on Risperdal, while at Kingswood in January, and he became a zombie at that time. He stated that he has been in and of the hospital multiple times since then, and each time, he has been placed on Risperdal and he doesn't feel that his meds were ever adjusted correctly.

At Walmart I found some discounts. One discount was soap, which was only for $4.00. Another discount was water, which was only for $2.00. These discounts in other stores are a bit expensive to buy, but these discounts from Walmart are very very cheap. At first I actually thought that Walmart would have more expensive things than Walgreens, but it turns out I was wrong.

The number of practicing primary care physicians (PCP’s) continues to decrease as aging PCP’s retire and new Doctors into the more sought after specialized fields. Higher salaries and better hours will continue to influence physicians to practice in specialized fields, leading to an increased utilization of specialist and an overall inefficient healthcare system. Only 30% of all physicians are PCP’s (compared to about 70% in most other developed countries and about 70% in the United States fifty years ago). Using Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s Thinking Process, we will determine what core problem is causing the shortage of primary care physicians. Evaluation of the effect of a lack of PCP’s in the medical industry will determine the Undesirable

On 9/9/2015, at approximately, 11am, CM met with Esther Toro in the cafeteria, to follow up on Ms. Toro High Blood pressure medication. Ms. Toro was sitting in the Cafeteria and she seems disoriented. She wasn’t oriented to person, place, time and situation, because client stated she didn’t went to the emergency room yesterday. She continues to mentioned she went last week. CM asked Ms. Toro if she was able to pick up her blood pressure medication yesterday, September 8, 20015. Ms. Toro replies “yes” she picked up her blood pressure medication. CM asked to see the blood pressure medication bottle. Ms. Toro shows CM the blood pressure medication bottle with only 9 pills. CM mentioned to the client the bottle stated that she received 30 pills

I see so many people walk in with heavy white pages in hand; they are just scribbles from doctors prescribing medications that just aren't working anymore. Even more so, as the prices of certain medications rise the demand never lessens. Through the small-town glass doors of Walgreens, I understand how a pharmacy functions not only as communal place of health but also as a place of unceasing issues. Customers are fed up with generic brands coming with high co-pays, insurance companies falling flat on policies, and feeling that there are no other options in trying to simply maintain their health.

A phone call was made to the patient B immediately after realising the patient B went home with medications that are intended for patient A. Patient B didn’t eat the medications and return it back to us. Apologized and correct medications prescribed for patient B is given to him.

Data: Client came to appointment on time with a decent attitude, and engaging during session. Today’s individual session was focused on addressing client’s treatment attendance issue. Client has not attending treatment group consistently, which will put her not in compliance with Kaiser Permanente suboxone program, as well as CD treatment at THS. Client has 7 absences from 03/01/17 – 05/25/17. Client reported no use of alcohol or other substances since started treatment. Client reported going to Kaiser Permanente weekly for counseling, UA, and obtain Suboxone prescription at Capitol Hill, Seattle. PC provided client with information for different OP groups but client stated, “I will make it work. Wednesday group works for me better.”

The pharmacist Code of Ethics states that pharmacists must respect the autonomy and dignity of each patient. The major ethical issue in this case deals with the principle of respecting Mrs. Jackson’s autonomy. Her patient does not lack any of the factors inherently necessary to be an autonomous person. There is no reason to believe that the patient lacks the innate capacity to understand her action and intention. However, her fixed income and high heating bills may play a role in her ability to make a truly autonomous decision. There is evidence in the case that the Jacksons are sharing the medication due to a financial strain.