Making Prescription Medication Labels
Easier to Understand
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Spreading the word...and the project reach
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In other news - we are beginning to partner with Wisconsin pharmacy systems that have sites outside the state! This can potentially spread patient-centered labels to Arizona, Illinois, Florida, and Minnesota.
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The list of participating pharmacies, clinics, and organizations continues to grow!
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More Wisconsin pharmacies, clinics, and organizations have joined Wisconsin Health Literacy (WHL) and the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) to redesign prescription labels so they are easier for patients to read and understand.
If you are interested in
improving patient adherence, as well as in having more satisfied patients and in receiving fewer callbacks
, then your pharmacy should join this project too! With support and guidance from WHL and using United States Pharmacopeia (USP) standards, you can also have labels that are patient-centered.
The following pharmacies, clinics, and organizations already have joined this project to redesign their prescription labels:
- altScripts Specialty Pharmacy
- Ascension Pharmacy
- Aurora Pharmacy
- Ballweg Family Pharmacy
- Evergreen Pharmacy
- Fitchburg Family Pharmacy
- Forward Pharmacy
- Froedtert Pharmacy
- GHC-SCW Pharmacy
- Gundersen Health System Pharmacy
- Hayat Pharmacy
- HealthNet of Rock County
- Hometown Pharmacy
- House of Wellness Pharmacy
- Lumicera Health Services
- Mayo Clinic Health System Pharmacy
- Mercyhealth
- Morton LTC
- O'Connell Pharmacy
- The Medicine Shoppe
- UW Health Pharmacy Services
If you would like to share project information with your staff or with other pharmacies, please download the
PDF Pharmacy Project flyer
.
Read more about the prescription label project in the following publications:
Funding is provided by the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin endowment of the Medical College of Wisconsin
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Project presentations delivered locally and at a national conference
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David Mott, professor at UW School of Pharmacy, Melissa Ngo, PharmD, BCACP, with UW Health Services Pharmacy, and Kari LaScala, Associate Director at Wisconsin Health Literacy, presented a session entitled: "Better Health = Better Labels: Improving Adherence and Understanding through Patient-Centered Labels" with the UW School of Pharmacy at their colloquium hour in February. Approximately 40 students attended the session to learn more about the importance of patient-centered labels.
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Melissa Ngo and Kari LaScala later presented a similar session with Dr. Ken Schellhase, project member and academic partner of this project, at a pre-Summit session at the Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit, a national conference, on April 1, 2019. In addition to learning about patient-centered labels, attendees were able to design their own prescription labels (see picture.)
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We are still in the same building, but moved floors. Please update your records.
Our new address is:
211 S. Paterson Street, Suite 170
Madison, WI 53703
Our email addresses and phone number have stayed the same.
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Wisconsin Health Literacy | (608) 257-1655 | www.wisconsinhealthliteracy.org
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