Examples of Care
Consumers
Comprehensive Medication Assessments
- Might you be taking too many medications?
- Are there less expensive medicines that will work as well?
- Are any medications preventing you from feeling as well as you could? How can you know if medicine is causing any trouble?
- Just tell me what information I really need!
Disease Management
- Patient education – Knowlege is the best health insurance.
- Coaching – for example, to quit smoking, “get off” pain medications, or to improve your medicines for mental or emotional health. A Doctor of Pharmacy can design a plan just for you and work with your doctor to make it happen.
- Collaboration with physician(s) to manage high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, etc. This can help save you doctor visits or hospital visits, and can help you feel so much better.
Help with bad reactions to medicines
Nutrition, and weight issues
Hormone Replacement Therapy Management: Male & Female
Pain Management: avoiding addiction or helping you and your doctor to break addiction while feeling better – a personal and private approach.
Allergy treatments
Vitamin and Herb information:
- Which vitamins work and are safe – Which are not.
- What side effects can you expect from vitamins or herbs?
- Which ones are worth the money?
Patient Advocacy to help you with any medication issues.
Physicians
- Polypharmacy Consults
- Disease Management
- Hormone Replacement Therapy Management: Female & Male
- Pain Management Care Plans
- Withdrawal Care Plans
- Alternative regimens
- Medication reconciliation – between practices and when patients transition facilities or to home
- Collaborative practice agreements
Corporations and Groups
- Medication management seminars to help empower team members. Studies show fewer sick days when staff members participate in such programs.
- Self-insured companies can save a great deal in healthcare costs when they include medication therapy management services (MTM) in their benefits package for all team members.
- Educational Programs: for healthcare professionals, consumers, business functions or social groups
