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Welcome to Pharmacy Services Support Center

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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Call PSSC (800) 628-6297 or email PSSC@aphanet.org.

 

 
     
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