Walgreens Health Services > Long-Term Care Pharmacy > Consultant Pharmacists

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SeniorMed offers your residents the opportunity to have a Consultant Pharmacist conduct medication reviews. This may help seniors avoid medication-related complications. It is especially helpful for residents taking multiple medications prescribed by various doctors who may not communicate with each other.

For your residents, a Consultant Pharmacist:

• Ensures a resident’s medication therapy is appropriate, effective, safe and used correctly
• Identifies, resolves, and prevents medication-related problems such as drug interactions, drug-food interactions, dosing or therapeutic duplications that may interfere with the goals of therapy
• Provides medication recommendations related to specific diseases or conditions that effect the senior population
• Identifies medications that may be unnecessary and/or cause adverse side effects
• Ensures adherence to the Beers’ Criteria for safe utilization of medications specific to the senior population
• Performs risk assessments to identify seniors at risk for behavioral disturbances, falls, diabetes and cognitive impairment
• Communicates with prescribers to suggest therapies and medications that would be safer and/or less costly to patients
• Advocates wellness through health screenings and immunizations

For your community, a Consultant Pharmacist:

• Observes adherence to medication pass and medication ordering procedures
• Assists with regulatory compliance related to surveyor’s issues
• Provides your community with medication information specific to the senior population
• Reviews and provides recommendations for your community’s medication room, medication storage and medication destruction
• Provides educational programs to your staff on an array of health-related topics such as diabetes, dementia, incontinence, etc.
• Helps to prevent a resident’s transition to a higher level of care facility (for example,. nursing home) by promoting wellness, independence, and medication management