ASAE awards Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin 2014 Summit Award
WASHINGTON — Earlier this month in Washington, D.C., ASAE - the Center for Association Leadership (formerly known as the American Society of Association Executives), presented the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin with the 2014 Summit Award.
The Summit Awards recognizes important contributions to society from the trade association and professional society community. PSW received this award in recognition for its initiative to improve health outcomes for Wisconsin patients.
PSW’s initiative — the Wisconsin Pharmacy Quality Collaborative — is an evidence-based approach to ensure that consumers are prescribed and dispensed medications with regular assessment of desired outcomes. Through the WPQC, pharmacists have provided tens of thousands of healthcare services to Wisconsin consumers, more than 1,000 pharmacists in the state have been certified and nearly half of the state’s pharmacies are accredited program partners.
The WPQC program is organized to improve health care quality and reduce health care costs by improving medication use. Focusing on cost‑effectiveness improvement alone has yielded a 4:1 return. Providing patients more information about their medications and providing a system that is designed to improve the coordination of their care is a strategy with anticipated long‑term results. A goal of the WPQC program is to create a standardized care process for patients who take medications.
Several NACDS chain pharmacies are participating in the WPQC program including Walgreens, Shopko, Aurora Pharmacy, Dean Pharmacies and Hometown Pharmacies.
Coincidentally, NACDS President and CEO, Steve Anderson, was previously selected to emcee of the ASAE Summit Awards Dinner, where PSW received their award.
Upon learning that he would have the honor of bestowing the award to PSW executives, Anderson commented, “The opportunity to recognize our friends and colleagues at PSW made the evening particularly rewarding, and particularly effective in advancing the growing recognition that pharmacy is receiving for its amazing work on behalf of the American people as the face of neighborhood healthcare.”