In our continued efforts at Pharmacy First to assist our pharmacy members we have teamed up with Pharmacy Quality Commitment™ (PQC)to offer a quality assurance program.
Recognizing that most third party programs and all Medicare Part D contracts require pharmacies to have, utilize and prove they are using a formal continuous quality improvement program, we are able to offer this valuable program to our members at a discounted rate and provide a convenient way for them to enroll. Pharmacy First/ Third Party Station has arranged for its members to receive a substantial discount from the retail price. At $200.00 a year, it may be one of the most important programs you use.
Mistakes happen. A doctor writes the wrong dosage, a clerk transposes a digit or your technician pulls the wrong drug. Fortunately your final check catches almost all of these missteps and no one is hurt. But you still wonder if there are more things you can do to make sure you never let a mistake cause harm to one of your patients.
It is a long standing axiom of management that you can’t improve what you don’t measure. A simple, effective and affordable solution exists and is currently being used by nearly 3,000 of your peers.
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Pharmacy Quality Commitment™ (PQC™) program is offered by your state pharmacy association through the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations (NASPA).
Getting started is simple and straight forward, but like any effective management process it will require time, effort and a commitment to improvement to be truly effective. But don’t worry, the experts on staff at NASPA have helped thousands of pharmacists successfully incorporate PQC™ into their workflow and are eager to help you too.
PQC™ provides three things no other continuous quality improvement program offers:
- Forms, manuals and ongoing training assistance that makes sure PQC™ becomes a meaningful and ongoing program for improvement in your pharmacy - not simply another manual on a shelf.
- A web portal into which you enter your patient safety data, protecting it from discovery so none of your patient safety data can be used against you in a legal proceeding.
- A quick and easy way to prove you are using a continuous quality improvement program that can be instantly printed out from the PQC™ web portal and given to any third party auditor.