You can expect the HomeTown Pharmacy LTC Consultant Pharmacist to be an active member of each facility’s healthcare team. HomeTown Pharmacy LTC Consultants are active members of ASCP, the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, which assures that they stay clinically current concerning new advances in long term care. Our goal is to ensure regulatory compliance and support your clinical team through programs, tools, and references, thus helping to meet today’s challenges of long term care.

We recognize that the consultant has a critical role in long term care. Our Pharmacists provide drug regimen reviews for each resident on a monthly basis, evaluating for drug to drug interactions, drug to food interactions, and appropriateness of dosing and disease state management. The Pharmacist thus helps coordinate resident care with the physicians and staff to improve patient outcomes. The goal of this team approach is to improve residents’ quality of life and decrease hospital admissions.

Our Consultant Pharmacists offer expertise and educational programs in pharmaceutical care for your facility staff. We reiterate that our Consultants will be active members of your healthcare team. HomeTown Pharmacy LTC consultants are not independent contractors. Our consultants are required to work in-house on dispensing functions on a routinely scheduled basis. This allows us to efficiently coordinate dispensing and consulting functions resulting in quick resolution of facility concerns.

Additional benefits of our Consultant Pharmacist services include:

• Consultant Pharmacist will actively participate at facility QA/CQI meetings

• Summaries of recommendations and reports of facility specific indicators

• Timely monthly reports to assist in managing your resident’s care

• Monthly medication storage audits

• Internal Pharmacists will alert the facility to non-covered Medicare D items and make appropriate recommendations before medications are dispensed

• Consultants are available to conduct a variety of on site in-services. The number and scope of in-services are specific to your facilities needs

• Consultants are available to speak with residents and their responsible parties regarding medication therapies and/or alternatives