The Community Pharmacy Foundation Announces Practice Transformation Teams
The Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) today announced the twenty (20) Practice Transformation Teams chosen to participate in the first cohort of the multi-year Flip the Pharmacy program. Flip the Pharmacy aims to transform community-based pharmacies away from point-in-time, prescription-level care processes and business models to longitudinal and patient-level care processes and business models through the use of hands on coaching. Practice Transformation Teams will act as implementation arms for locally-based community pharmacy practice transformation efforts. CPESN
®
USA has partnered with CPF to serve as the Coordinating Center for Flip the Pharmacy.
Practice Transformation Teams from 27 different states have been selected to participate in Cohort 1:
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
New Jersey
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Over the intensive two-year experience, each participating pharmacy will be served by a Practice Transformation Team that will be focused on implementing the Flip the Pharmacy Change Package with the help of the Flip the Pharmacy Coordinating Center, CPESN USA. “Each team has established key relationships with payers and transformation partners generating large in-kind support for their implementation plans, while presenting lean budgets for recruiting and coaching participating pharmacies. We are eager to watch these teams grow and begin transforming community pharmacy through the creation of replicable and sustainable care and business processes” said CPF Board President Phil Burgess, RPh.
The first cohort covers all regions of the country and the Teams have committed to engaging and deploying more than 70 Practice Transformation Coaches to more than 500 pharmacies across the country to implement the six key transformation domains supported at the pharmacy-level by transformation coaches (see domains at
www.flipthepharmacy.com
).
Over the next 5-years, the Program aims to graduate more than 1,000 pharmacies from the two-year transformation process. Opportunities remain for program and network partners. Details and commitment forms are available on the sponsorship page of the website.
