2009 Midyear Clinical Meeting
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Financial Considerations for Small/Rural Hospitals: Securing Resources to Maximize Patient Access to Healthcare and Medications
Track:
Programming for Small and Rural Hospitals (CE)
Program Code: 303-L04
Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009
Time: 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST
Location:
Bellini 2104
MEETING PLANNING ASSOCIATE:
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Debby Cowan,
PharmD, RPh, Director of Pharmacy,
Angel Medical Center
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Debra Cowan, B.S. Pharm., Pharm.D (828-349-6851;dcowan@angelmed.org) is Director of Pharmacy at Angel Medical Center, a 59-bed rural hospital which recently converted to a critical access hospital, in western North Carolina. She has been a small and rural hospital pharmacist for 30 years with more than 20 of those years spent also as director. She was the first pharmacist to work at her current hospital. There she expanded pharmacy services to extensive clinical activities, pharmacy student preceptorship, and technologically-enhanced med safety procedures. Being a small hospital director, her job duties are multiple and varied ranging from staffing to providing community emergency preparedness.
She graduated from the University of New Mexico (B.S. Pharm) and the University of Colorado (NTPharmD). Cowan has served on several ASHP committees including the Small and Rural Hospital Advisory group and the Educational Steering Committee while assuming the position of Chair for the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners in June 2009. She has served as moderator and/or speaker as well as led small and rural hospital networking sessions at several recent ASHP midyear meetings.
Also Adjunct Assistant Professor at UNC-CH Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education.
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PRESENTER(S):
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Debby Cowan,
PharmD, RPh, Director of Pharmacy,
Angel Medical Center
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Debra Cowan, B.S. Pharm., Pharm.D (828-349-6851;dcowan@angelmed.org) is Director of Pharmacy at Angel Medical Center, a 59-bed rural hospital which recently converted to a critical access hospital, in western North Carolina. She has been a small and rural hospital pharmacist for 30 years with more than 20 of those years spent also as director. She was the first pharmacist to work at her current hospital. There she expanded pharmacy services to extensive clinical activities, pharmacy student preceptorship, and technologically-enhanced med safety procedures. Being a small hospital director, her job duties are multiple and varied ranging from staffing to providing community emergency preparedness.
She graduated from the University of New Mexico (B.S. Pharm) and the University of Colorado (NTPharmD). Cowan has served on several ASHP committees including the Small and Rural Hospital Advisory group and the Educational Steering Committee while assuming the position of Chair for the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners in June 2009. She has served as moderator and/or speaker as well as led small and rural hospital networking sessions at several recent ASHP midyear meetings.
Also Adjunct Assistant Professor at UNC-CH Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education.
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Nancy Egbert,
RN, MPH, Senior Clinical Advisor,
Health Resources and Services Administration
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Nancy Egbert is a captain in the U.S. Public Health Service and has spent most of her 22 year career working on behalf of underserved populations, both in the U.S. and internationally. She spent over eleven years in the Chicago HRSA Regional Office as the Clinical Coordinator for the HRSA Bureau of Primary Care programs. Some of her accomplishments were the development of the Midwest Clinicians Network and the implementation of the Health Disparities Collaboratives in the Midwest Regional Community Health Centers.
In 2002, she accepted a detail to the U.S. Agency for International Developments Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance as their Public Heath Consultant. She spent three years monitoring health programs in war torn and disaster affected countries in Africa.
In 2005, she returned to HRSA where she is the Senior Clinical Advisor for HRSAs Office of Rural Health Policy. In this role she works on various quality improvement projects. She is also the rural point of contact for the 340 B program, the regional liaison for 5 states in the Northwest and a project officer for the three ORHP grant program.
She has degrees in anthropology, nursing and public health.
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Lisa Scholz,
PharmD, MBA, Senior Director,
Health Resources and Services Administration Pharmacy Services Support Center (managed by APhA)
Lisa Scholz is the Senior Director for the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) Pharmacy Services Support Center, managed by the American Pharmacists Association as a federal contract with the HRSA Office of Pharmacy Affairs.
Lisas 18 years of pharmacy operation experiences include: health-system management, retail, community health center/ambulatory care, ADAP, school-based and homeless/provider-based clinics. She was nominated Shaker of the Year in 2007 by the Houston Chamber of Commerce, which recognizes professional women committed to the community. This recognition was in part to her service to the Medical Reserve Corp, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, and Harris County Hospital District. She is a graduate and fellow from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/VA Patient Safety Improvement Corp, where her team focused on medication reconciliation in the safety net community.
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Description
Planned in cooperation with the ASHP Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners
ACPE Activity #204-000-09-303-L04P
1.0 Contact Hour / Knowledge-based
Educational Content: Level 2
Moderator: Debra L. Cowan, PharmD, RPh, Director of Pharmacy, Angel Medical Center, Franklin, NC
9:00 a.m. - 9:05 a.m.
Announcements
9:05 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Utilizing Governmental Programs and Other Funding Streams
Lisa M. Scholz, PharmD, MBA, Senior Director, Health Resources and Services Administration Pharmacy Services Support Center (managed by APhA), Washington, DC
9:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Supporting the Rural Safety Net: Office of Rural Health Grant Programs
Nancy L. Egbert, RN, MPH, Senior Clinical Advisor, Health Resources and Services Administration, Rockville, MD
9:50 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Questions, Answers, and Discussion
Learning Objectives:
- Describe financial savings initiatives such as offered through HRSAs Office of Pharmacy Affairs (340B, innovative service models, technical assistance) and other government pharmacy programs.
- Explain Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant opportunities and successful requesting tips.
- Name ideas for optimizing financial backing for pharmacy services.
