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About the
Pharmacy Services Support Center (PSSC)
The HRSA Pharmacy Services Support Center (PSSC) is
a resource that was established in 2002 to assist
HRSA grantees and eligible health care sites
optimize the value of the 340B Program and provide
clinically and cost effective pharmacy services that
improve medication use and advance patient care.
The PSSC operates under a contract between the
American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and the
Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA), in the HRSA
Healthcare Systems Bureau.
The mission of PSSC is to provide information,
education, and policy analysis to help eligible
entities optimize the value of the 340B program and
provide clinically and cost effective pharmacy
services that improve medication use and advance
patient care.
About the 340B Drug Pricing Program
The 340B Drug Pricing Program is a federal program
that requires drug manufacturers to provide
outpatient drugs to eligible health care centers,
clinics, and hospitals (termed “covered entities”)
at a reduced price. This requirement is described in
Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act, which
was enacted in 1992 to provide financial relief to
those facilities that provide care to the medically
underserved.
For more information about the 340B Drug Pricing
Program and to view a list of eligible entities,
please visit
“About the 340B Program” section on our web
site.
HRSA's Patient Safety
and Clinical Pharmacy Services
Collaborative
Call for participants
The Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) is pleased to invite
community-based teams
of health care
providers to join a quality improvement breakthrough
effort called the Patient Safety and Clinical
Pharmacy Services Collaborative (PSPC). The
mission of this Collaborative, modeled after the
Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Learning
Collaboratives, is to advance the delivery of world
class care by spreading the integration of clinical
pharmacy services and patient safety principles to
improve health outcomes in safety-net populations.
HRSA
invites you to form a team with other health care
organizations in your community to take part in this
exciting and unprecedented opportunity. The PSPC
offers an 18-month rapid learning process that
brings together inter-professional teams from
multiple organization types within communities to
make rapid and sustainable improvement in how care
is delivered to patients. The first Learning
Session will be held August 14–15, 2008.
The
overall goal of the Collaborative is to put in
place, across multiple health care partners, a
service delivery system for high-risk patients that
will produce three results:
1) Integration of clinical
pharmacy services
2) Improved patient safety
3) Improved patient health
outcomes.
This Collaborative will achieve
its goal by spreading the leading practices of high
performing safety-net providers who have achieved
outstanding safety and health outcomes for their
patients. These organizations have accomplished
these results by employing innovative, transferable
delivery system practices.
The “PSPC
Overview and Participation Information,” is
available at
www.hrsa.gov/patientsafety/. Your request to
participate in the Collaborative must be received by
July 1, 2008.
Two
national teleconferences will be held regarding this
exciting opportunity:
·
May 28th:
12pm to 1pm EST, to provide an overview of the
participation package and answer questions.
·
June 4th:
12pm to 1pm EST, to discuss the PSPC learning
process and pre-work that teams will begin on July
15, 2008.
Both calls
can be accessed by calling (866) 843-0890, access
code 5541910. Email questions to
patientsafety@hrsa.gov.
HRSA looks
forward to your participation in this
transformational effort that will greatly improve
the quality of health care provided to patients
served by the nation’s healthcare safety-net
providers.
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