Pharmacy Care Transitions and Hospital Discharge

Wisconsin's PATH ALONG model spells out the discipline specific care transition to help the patient population better understand how the inpatient stay to community discharge process works. 
During your hospital stay the inpatient pharmacy delivers your needed medications.  Upon discharge the corner drug store will be giving you the prescribed medications.  This is a simple lay out to help you better comprehend the Pharmacy care transition.

Hospital pharmacy     (transition)     Home town pharmacy

Dynamic component- Home town pharmacy able to dispense medication the way MD order has been written

Rationale: taking medications as provider ordered helps prevent a rehospitalization

The home town pharmacy will need a valid pay source before filling the bottle with the pills you need.  This is best accomplished when the prescribing provider writes an order for a medication that is listed on your health insurance plans formulary.  This means the insurance plan will pay the larger part of the medication.

Does the home town pharmacy have the prescribed medication on a shelf at their current location for placing in a pill bottle and handing out to you.  Some less frequently prescribed medications may need to be brought in to the home town pharmacy location from another storage area before available to dispense. 

If you are expected to take some of the medication that afternoon and the home town pharmacy will not have it available to give out till the next day, this can adversely effect the recovery.  The ideal MD order (prescription) will be for a medication that is paid for by your health insurance plan and the home town pharmacy has sitting on the shelf of their current location ready to hand out to you the consumer.

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

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Home Care Path (www.homecarepath.com) received a Healthy Community Partnership Grant from St. Clare Health Care Foundation to demonstrate how attention to care transitions can keep families from having to run back and forth to the hospital.  This is a free event and everyone is invited to attend.  This includes Pizza from 2 Brother's Pizza and Buffet 221 Broadway Wisconsin Dells  https://www.facebook.com/2BrothersPizzaBuffet

Date and Location of free presentation to simplify care transitions

 Monday August 19, 2013 - 1 pm
Baraboo Senior Center (Civic Center)
124 Second Street, Baraboo WI 53913

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