Alliance Pharmacy Services

How the Alliance Pharmacy Services Program Works

The Alliance Pharmacy Services program is a seven-day exchange program. Our customer facilities fax or phone orders upon resident admission or physician change order. Our pharmacists review each order for accuracy, completeness, and saving opportunities. On a facility’s exchange day, the orders for the coming week’s worth of medications for all of the facility’s residents are filled, checked, and packed in trays for delivery by an Alliance Pharmacy Services driver; the driver also picks up the empty trays from the previous week’s delivery. Between exchanges, the facility receives daily deliveries of new or changed medication orders. The facility also has an on-site emergency kit so that needed medications and supplies are at hand for critical situations.

How does Alliance Pharmacy Services promote nursing efficiency?

Medications arrive in trays, organized as the facility determines, most often by unit, room number, and resident. Trays are divided into cassettes that contain pills and capsules packaged in patient/dose-specific cellophane strips.

Each packet in the strip is imprinted with the resident’s name, the medication, dosage, and the date and time of administration. For example, Resident A’s medications for 8 a.m. on Monday may begin the strip; they are followed by her medications for noon on Monday, then for 4:00 p.m. Monday, and so on for each pass time and each day of the week. Liquids and ointments are provided in separate, patient-labeled packaging.

The nurse simply moves down the unit, administering the prepackaged medications to each resident in turn. When she returns to the nursing station to complete the Medication Dispensing Record, the cellophane strips serve as a ready reference for her recordkeeping.

How does Alliance Pharmacy Services promote cost-effectiveness?

The seven-day exchange minimizes waste related to physician order changes. It just makes sense: When the doctor makes a change, Alliance Pharmacy Services facilities discard a maximum of seven days of medication. Facilities on 30-day programs find themselves disposing of up to a month’s worth of costly medication.

Alliance Pharmacy Services billing is equally accurate and timely. Even emergency supplies are reliably billed to the appropriate resident when the facility orders the medications to replenish the emergency cart.

Alliance Pharmacy offers infusion services.

Alliance Pharmacy Services also offers complete IV services, including TPN, pain management, and hydration antibiotics. We provide nursing support for IV therapy training and IV starts, and our pharmacists and nurses are on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Find out more here – or contact Denise Wassenaar, by email or phone at 800.349.8550.