American Pharmacists Month: Pharmacy Collaboration Enables Better Patient Care

Lately, many pharmacies and pharmacists have demonstrated their heightened ability to provide clinical services. However, to provide valued health care to patients across their community, internal and external collaboration is crucial.

“The collaboration starts within the walls of your pharmacy, with your technicians, with your clerks. You might have a dietician on staff now, you might have a nutritionist, you might have a respiratory therapist, you might have all sorts of stuff,” Steve Moore, PharmD, owner of Condo Pharmacy in Plattsburgh, New York, told Drug Topics. “Pharmacists are working with nurses and nursing colleagues—we did during COVID, [and] we continue to do [so]. Pharmacists are working with physicians and nurse practitioners in direct care models, which are pretty exciting, where you're putting a clinic right inside the pharmacy—[so there's] lots of opportunity for collaboration.”

From inside the pharmacy to the interconnected health care providers that many pharmacists rely on, the care that pharmacies give their patients relies on the work of many different players within the health care sector.

During American Pharmacists Month, Moore joined Drug Topics to discuss the importance of pharmacy collaboration and fostering relationships and partnerships with experts in other areas of health care. He highlighted how his pharmacy constantly works with other providers and how recent developments, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and technological advancements, have opened the door for collaborative practices.

Get expert insights from a pharmacist and pharmacy owner who has seen these collaborative approaches benefit both patients and providers in his community and beyond.

READ MORE: American Pharmacists Month Resource Center

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