ASHP Sends Representatives to White House Forum in Greensboro

3/30/2009

ASHP members Dennis Williams and Michael Nnadi are scheduled to participate in today’s White House-sponsored health care forum in Greensboro, N.C.

The regional health care forums are being held to discuss strategies that should be included in health-care reform proposals. ASHP members also attended recent forums held in Dearborn, Mich., Des Moines, Iowa, and Burlington, Vt.

All members are encouraged to visit www.healthreform.gov to provide your ideas, thoughts, and questions for the upcoming forums. Input submitted to the forums should address:

Patient access to medications and pharmacists services,
The importance of creating a new reimbursement model that includes coverage for pharmacists’ medication-related patient care services, and
Funding programs that will make an investment in education and training for pharmacists.

ASHP is partnering with our affiliate in California to ensure that pharmacists are active participants in upcoming forum in Los Angeles.

The Society has developed a set of principles that it believes should be included in any proposal for health-care reform, and is educating congressional leaders and staff on the ways pharmacists’ medication expertise can benefit patients.

For more information about these issues contact ASHP’s Government Affairs staff at gad@ashp.org.

Click here to read ASHP’s Principles for Health Care Reform.