by GV Team | Oct 26, 2018 | Patient Safety, Resources, Senior Health
Blog by Mark Wolfe, Customer Account Representative, GrandView Pharmacy Many times, long term care facilities allow their residents choice of pharmacy when they discuss living arrangements within their facilities. Allowing the residents choice in selecting their...
by GV Team | Oct 25, 2018 | Drug Information, Patient Safety, Reducing Readmissions, Resources, Senior Health
When people get prescriptions for medications, they assume the products they’re taking are correct and should help them feel better. However, statistics indicate medication errors happen during 3.8 million hospital admissions and 3.3 million outpatient visits every...
by GV Team | Oct 19, 2018 | Patient Safety, Reducing Readmissions, Regulation Changes, Resources
Article by CMS.gov What’s the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program? The Hospital VBP Program rewards acute care hospitals with incentive payments for the quality of care they give to people with Medicare. This program adjusts payments to hospitals under...
by GV Team | Oct 12, 2018 | Patient Safety, Reducing Readmissions, Regulation Changes, Resources, Senior Health
Article by Maggie Flynn, Skilled Nursing News While rural skilled nursing facilities are facing the same reimbursement and regulatory challenges as their urban peers, they’re going to have to take some extra steps to survive the pressures. For one thing, rural SNFs...
by GV Team | Oct 12, 2018 | Employee News
We’re proud of our employees and here’s why. Have You Met… Customer service is important to our organization because it is the primary source of communication with our clients. Our customer’s happiness is a vital part of our organization because we...
by GV Team | Oct 12, 2018 | Drug Information, Resources, Senior Health
Article by Jill Drury, PharmD, Pharmacy Times Brown-bag consults can be essential educational and safety tools to measure and ensure quality care. By asking patients to bring in all their current medications, including OTC, mail-order, specialty, and herbal products,...
by GV Team | Oct 4, 2018 | Patient Safety, Psychotropic Medications, Resources, Senior Health
Article by Amy Goyer, AARP “My Dad lived with Alzheimer’s disease for 15 years. He passed on three months ago at the age of 94. As I look back at the choices I made for him over the years as his primary caregiver, there are some things I would do differently...
by GV Team | Oct 1, 2018 | Patient Safety, Senior Health
Article by A Place for Mom In 2010, pneumonia, combined with influenza, was the eighth leading cause of death in the United Sates, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. On top of this, 1 out of 20 adults who get pneumonia dies, according to the...
by GV Team | Sep 28, 2018 | Drug Information, Patient Safety, Resources, Senior Health
Article by National Institute on Aging “Clinicians were more likely to reduce the number and dose of opioid drugs they prescribed when they learned that one of their patients had died from a controlled substance overdose than those clinicians who were not...
by GV Team | Sep 26, 2018 | Patient Safety, Reducing Readmissions, Senior Health
Article by Kimberly Hume, MSN, RN, FAHCEP and Elizabeth Tomsik, PharmD, BCPS, PMC “Like patient education, effective approaches to medication reconciliation can get lost among the myriad of duties performed by pharmacists and clinicians. The unfortunate reality...
