Hospice and Long-Term Care Pharmacy | Select Pharmacy | Los Angeles

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Select Pharmacy, a leading hospice pharmacy in Los Angeles, supports hospice providers by offering them the medication and supplies they need to care for their patients. Pharmacists serve as key members on interdisciplinary teams and provide counseling inpatient care by updating and educating the team about medication, and closely monitoring patients’ therapeutic responses.

How a Hospice Pharmacy in Los Angeles Supports Hospice Providers

A hospice pharmacist is trained to offer invaluable insight into formulating medication and optimizing hospice care.

Appropriate Medication Use

Pharmacists are responsible for continually assessing the appropriateness of medication for patients and determining the safest and most effective dose. Proper medication therapy management (MTM) can help prevent visits to the emergency department or urgent care. Hospice pharmacists are trained to recognize potential sources of error as they emerge and to assist in developing strategies to reduce errors and ensure regulatory compliance.

At the best hospice pharmacy in Los Angeles, experienced hospice pharmacists are skilled at recommending dosage conversions to forms that increase the effectiveness of pain management and reduce serum concentration peaks and troughs. In addition, hospice pharmacists help predict and measure potential drug interactions with traditional medication regimens and anticipate a patient’s decline in health over time.

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Consultation and Education

Hospice providers rely on pharmacists for medication evaluation based on cost, side effects, and emerging safety information. In addition, when medication shortages arise, pharmacists search for appropriate substitutions.

Hospice pharmacists assist hospice providers in staying within insurance coverage/budget limits, navigating formulary restrictions, and requesting prior authorizations required to begin or continue a specific regimen.

Pharmacists also play a key role in educating patients and caregivers about the correct dosage and benefits of medication. They can remind hospice providers, patients, and family members to recognize emerging behavioral or mood symptoms. Hospice pharmacists are qualified to make recommendations about medication options to address symptoms concurrent with pain and side effects.

Medication Preparation and Dispensing

Terminally ill patients often require non-standard doses typically unavailable commercially. In these cases, hospice pharmacists may need to formulate medications that will overcome undesirable results and/or produce dosage forms using alternative ingredients to avoid allergic reactions or progressive intolerances.

Hospice providers turn to pharmacists for dosing device recommendations to help deliver the proper dose of highly potent medication. Hospice pharmacists are also trained to alleviate the stress of navigating the challenges of controlled-substance logistics.

Why Choose Select Pharmacy

At Select Pharmacy, a team of pharmacists use the latest technology to accurately formulate complex medications within a short time frame.

Hospice providers trust Select Pharmacy to deliver medication and supplies on time, every day of the year. Clients can choose from the following delivery options:

Rapid delivery. 2.5-hour delivery window for clients within the delivery radius.
Stat. 2-4 hour delivery window for clients within the delivery radius.
Same-day delivery. Clients receive medication/supplies by the end of the day.
Next day delivery. Clients receive medication/supplies the day after placing an order.

Hospice providers can rest assured knowing Select Pharmacy pharmacists are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year to fill orders and answer questions.