- Bartell Drugs, Food Lifeline team up to fight hunger (drugstorenews.com)
Now through June 27, Bartell Drugs locations throughout King, Pierce and Snohomish counties (SEATTLE area)are accepting non-perishable food items to replenish local food banks in the summer months when families that normally depend on free or reduced-price school meals may struggle to provide healthy meals at home.
- Do you have the skills to practice contemporary community pharmacy? (pharmacist.com)
.....the skill sets that contemporary community pharmacists need to routinely and effectively provide CMM services in today’s health care system include current and comprehensive therapeutic knowledge (the foundation for all other skills), critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, interpersonal communication (verbal and written), teamwork (collaboration with other providers), motivational interviewing, health coaching, and documentation skills.
- CVS Aims at Target: Deal Analysis and Marketplace Implications (drugchannels.net)
I review key deal terms and what they mean for CVS and Target. I also consider derivative impacts on McKesson, Cardinal Health, Diplomat Pharmacy, and Catamaran.
- CVS’s purchase of Target’s pharmacy business: The good and bad for consumers (washingtonpost.com)
Good: Convenience, convenience, convenience. More locations means more places to get treatment and possibly less waiting times. Bad: Cost. Will less competition in the market mean higher prices?
- CVS Health honored for colleague-focused health and wellness initiatives (drugstorenews.com)
CVS Health was honored on Wednesday by the National Business Group on Health, a non-profit association of large U.S. employers, for its ongoing commitment and dedication to promoting a healthy work environment and encouraging employees and their families to maintain healthy lifestyles.
- NCPA Statement on CVS-Target Deal (ncpanet.org)
"Further consolidation in the retail setting means pharmacy services are increasingly available only from a fewer number of larger entities. The CVS-Target deal reinforces the need and strengthens the case for allowing patients to use 'any willing pharmacy' that accepts a drug plan's terms and conditions, such as reimbursement. "Patients in underserved rural and inner-city areas rely on access to independent community pharmacies for prescription medication and counseling. For these and some other patients national pharmacy chains are not a practical option.