[nyschp.dop] Re: Overnight coverage in non 24 hour operations (Away from the office)
- From: "Althea Buckner" <Althea.Buckner@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "nyschp.dop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <nyschp.dop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:05:35 -0400
I will be away from the office on March12th and 13th If you need assistance
please call Lily Chee at 212-238-7103 in the outpatient pharmacy or Alessandro
Cavallo or Mary Tran at 212-238-7061 in the SNF pharmacy.
>>> Scott Burns <SBurns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 03/13/15 10:05 >>>
Koth,
Rome Memorial Hospital does not have 24 hour on site coverage. We have been
utilizing PipelineRx as our remote pharmacy coverage vendor since 2011. There
were some initial issues with reporting of accurate numbers processed through
their system compared to our PIS but they worked well with me to work through
the reports and have since been an asset to the department. The reality is
that I feel the cost is fair while I would much prefer be staffed 24 hours the
cost benefit just is not there for our size institution. We pay a flat fee for
monthly service and only pay more if we go beyond our monthly allocated RX
volume which we have not went over budget since early in the 2012 contract year
when I made an adjustment to account for increased hospitalist ordering during
pharmacy closed hours. Please feel free to contact me if you need/want any
additional information.
Scott T Burns, RPh
Pharmacy Director
1500 North James Street
Rome, NY 13440
Phone: (315)338-7152
Fax: (315)338-7122
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From: nyschp.dop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nyschp.dop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Koth Cassavaugh
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 9:40 PM
To: nyschp.dop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: kcassavaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [nyschp.dop] Overnight coverage in non 24 hour operations
I need to gather information on what people are doing if they do not have 24
hour onsight pharmacy coverage.
Do you utilize a remote pharmacy coverage?
if so, what comapny do you use?
How well do feel the company you utilize works for your istitution?
How fair do you feel the cost is for the service?
I must admit that I was finally able to get rid of the remote company that was
brought on before I got here due the multitude of daily errors that I had
collected and reported.
It took me over a year to show that the comapny was not safe or effective and
was very expensive compared to the competition.
This of course started a major problem for me becuase once there is a service
to cover 24 hours there is no going back.
As we were in the process of getting out of the old contract I advocated to
bring in another group but was not able to move forward with the new group due
to internal dynamics.
We expanded the pharmacy hours (at basically no cost to the institution) but do
not have coverage from 2300 to 0600.
Has anyone come up with a unique way to cover these hours without a remote
company or hiring night personnel?
Thank you,
koth
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