TITUSVILLE, Fla. — Parrish Medical Center (PMC) is working with Walgreens at 2475 North U.S. 1 in Mims (see map) to provide patients who are preparing to go home from a hospital stay with a convenient, bedside medication delivery option.
Medication is often prescribed to help patients heal and recuperate at home. This new service makes it easy and convenient for patients to have prescriptions filled and delivered directly to them before leaving the hospital and eliminates the need for that extra stop on the way home.
As part of this new service, Walgreens provides a full-time pharmacy technician who is dedicated to PMC. The pharmacy technician visits with a patient during their hospital stay and asks if they would like prescriptions filled and delivered to them before leaving the hospital. If they do, the patient fills out a request form with their physician's medication orders. Walgreens handles any necessary insurance authorizations and fills and delivers the order directly to the patient.
"We want to help ease the transition from hospital to home, and this new program does that," said Walgreens Market Vice President Marlin Hutchens. "Every day, we offer convenience and accessibility to the communities we serve. This bedside medication delivery service takes that care to another level. For those who do not live near PMC, patients can always refill their medication at any Walgreens location."
"Providing healing patient experiences is our mission and our work with Walgreens to provide this patient bedside prescription delivery option helps us further fulfill that mission," said Edwin Loftin, vice president, nursing, Parrish Medical Center.
Studies have shown that 50 percent of patients across the country do not get their prescriptions filled once discharged from the hospital. Delays in taking prescribed medicines or missing a dose can result in slowed recovery or even a trip back to the hospital. This program helps ensure the patient has the medication needed to stay on the road to recovery once leaving the hospital.
"Together with Walgreens, we are improving patient safety, recovery and satisfaction," said Loftin.
Patient benefits include: Simple request system Free patient hotline for medication consultation with the pharmacist Fast, bedside delivery of physician-ordered prescriptions Time-saving option that makes transition from hospital to home easier Improves compliance to take prescribed medicines for improved recovery
About Parrish Medical Center
Parrish Medical Center, located at 951 N. Washington Ave., Titusville, Florida (see map), is a 210-bed, not-for-profit public medical center serving North Brevard County for more than 50 years. PMC earned the Gallup Great Workplace Award, the J.D. Power and Associates Distinguished Hospital ProgramSM Award for An Outstanding Inpatient Experience, was named a Modern Healthcare magazine Top 100 Place to Work in Healthcare and a Spirit of Excellence Award Winner. PMC was voted America's # 1 Healing Hospital three years in a row. The medical center has been awarded nine disease specific certification gold seals from the Joint Commission in acute coronary syndrome, breast cancer, diabetes education, heart failure, hip replacement, knee replacement, palliative care, stroke and wound healing. For more information, visit www.parrishmed.com.
About Walgreens
Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) is the nation's largest drugstore chain and operates 7,689 drugstores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Each day Walgreens provides nearly 6 million customers the most convenient, multichannel access to consumer goods and services, and trusted, cost-effective pharmacy, health and wellness services and advice in communities across America. Walgreens scope of pharmacy services includes retail, specialty, infusion, medical facility and mail service, along with respiratory services. These services improve health outcomes and lower costs for payers including employers, managed care organizations, health systems, pharmacy benefit managers and the public sector. Take Care Health Systems is a Walgreens subsidiary that is the largest and most comprehensive manager of worksite health centers and in-store convenient care clinics, with more than 700 locations throughout the country.