A Fond Farewell

I want to say my own adieu to the Value Pharmacists community. Through the years I have been fortunate to have made many friends through our work in supporting the practice of pharmacy. Pharmacists, colleagues, students and their spouses at

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Status Recognition Battle Continues

The time has come for valuepharmacists.com to be relegated to the history. This will be my final blog post. As I was working on a draft of the upcoming blog post, “Covid Challenges and Opportunities – Vaccinations” I came to

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Now for some good news ….

Value Pharmacists no longer requires you to “sign-up” to view our blog or “sign-in” to gain access to the insightful posts. You will no longer need to slog through emails to find messages to discover the lastest. No login id/passwords

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Covid Challenges and Opportunities for Pharmacists – Testing

All too often, the kudos, honorable mentions and stories about the challenges of front line health care workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic omits pharmacists. This blog is the first in a series designed to highlight the challenges pharmacists faced and

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Pharmacist Burnout – How Serious is it?

Surveys and studies reveal that over 60% of pharmacists report experiencing a high level of burnout. This is one of the highest rates among healthcare professionals. The rate is higher than that found in nurses, surgeons, oncologists, and emergency medicine

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Are You Happy Being a Pharmacist?

Pharmacists are one of the least happy careers in the United States. Career Explorer In my previous blog post I asked the question “How Happy are Recent Pharmacy Graduates?” My internet research showed a disturbingly large number of recent pharmacy graduates were unhappy with

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How Happy are Recent Pharmacy Graduates?

In my previous blog post I mentioned a few things that had been in the back of mind since leaving the echo chamber, one of those being the increasing frustration of new graduates coming out of pharmacy school and being

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Here’s Val !

I left the pharmacy ‘world” when I left Colorado. That could explain the lack of blog posts. After eating, drinking and breathing all things pharmacy for 10 years as a Colorado Pharmacists Association/Society board member, committee chair and officer, and

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Where’s Val?

During this unusual year of lock-down, many unprecedented events occurred and continue. Fortunately for those of us living in Prescott, the impact of a worldwide pandemic has been softened by the wide variety of hiking trails, cycling and golf options

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Results for Enhanced MTM Model Test – First Two Years

Over 80% of the plans participating in the CMS Enhanced Medication Therapy Management (MTM) model test showed reductions in medical spending! Read more about Enhanced MTM in our post from 2017. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation

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