Success Stories by Topic: Pharmacy and prescription drugs

• Senior Discount Drug Program
  May 2009
  The McKinney Community Health Center developed a consortium of organizations to provide senior citizens living at or below the poverty level with discount-rate medications for hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia.
• Ottertail’s Econodrug
  July 2008
  Ottertail’s Econodrug is a telepharmacy, which allows the store to provide prescription medication to customers without a pharmacist on the premises. In Ottertail this saves residents a 20-30 mile drive to the next pharmacy.
• Rx for the Uninsured
  April 2008
  Rx for the Uninsured finds physicians, procures prescription medications, and provides care management for uninsured Central Georgians ages 19-64, who have incomes within 200% of the Federal Poverty Level and who suffer from diabetes, heart disease, hypertension or depression.
• Migrant Health Service, Inc. $10 Self-Pay Drug Plan
  January 2008
  Migrant Health Service, Inc. (MHSI) was awarded the 2007 Sister Cecilia B. Abhold Award for Innovation in Health Outreach in the Midwestern stream. The award recognizes MHSI’s unique $10 Self-Pay Drug Plan that increases access to affordable medications in rural areas of North Dakota and Minnesota.
• Northeast Missouri Rural Health Network Prescription Drug Assistance Program
  August 2007
  This program assists individuals by gathering the needed data and completing the necessary enrollment forms for free medications available through pharmaceutical companies, generic prescriptions through RxOutreach and/or TogetherRx drug discount cards depending on their income level.
• Dakota Prairie Community Action Agency Medicare Rx Plan
  June 2007
  In 2005 the Dakota Prairie Community Action Agency was able to provide outreach, information and assistance to elderly clients signing up for Medicare Prescription Drug Cards.
• Prescription for Prevention
  June 2007
  Three Minnesota organizations worked together to help with emergency prescriptions and, together, developed a program to provide clients with assistance for co-payments or one-month prescriptions.
• WAGES Medication Management and Prescription Assistance Program
  June 2007
  The WAGES program educates low-income seniors in North Carolina about their medications, checks for interactions and duplication, and helps them manage their prescription costs.
• RxCUE program
  January 2007
  The RxCUE program is a community-based prescription medication assistance program.
• Wayne Memorial Hospital Consortium Patient Safety Project
  January 2007
  This project is built on the premise that a significant aspect of patient safety that can be improved is in the realm of medication, including prescription, transcription, validation, documentation, ordering, dispensing, administering, and usage of drugs and other pharmaceuticals.