Portland

How a Pharmacy Team Solved an Expensive Problem

Region
Northwest
Keywords
Community Care Pharmacy
Portland
Topic
Affordability
Request Number
VID-165_How_Pharmacy_Team_Solved_Expensive_Problem
Long Teaser

In just six months, a pharmacy team in Portland, Ore., reduces its expired-medication costs by 90 percent—from $70,000 to $7,000.

Communicator (reporters)
Jennifer Gladwell
Editor (if known, reporters)
Tyra Ferlatte
Video Media (reporters)
Download File URL
http://content.jwplatform.com/videos/PKGwiH0a-iq13QL4R.mp4
Running Time
2:25
Status
Done
Tracking (editors)
Date of publication

By working with other departments to get the data they need, members of this pharmacy team in the Northwest reduced their expired-medication costs by 90 percent. What can your team learn from its success to help keep Kaiser Permanente affordable?

Produced by Jennifer Gladwell.
Edited by Jennifer Gladwell and Kellie Applen.
Videography and Photography by Beverly White and Laura Morton.

 

 

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Speak Up, Change a Life Kellie Applen Mon, 02/22/2016 - 14:58
Region
Northwest
Keywords
epilepsy
Lucy Scott
Deborah Newcomb
Juan Piantino
East Interstate
Portland
Debbie Newcomb
neurodiagnostic technologist
neurology
Topic
Culture
Download File URL
VID-132_Speak_Up_Change_a_Life/VID-132Speak_Up_Change_A_Life%20%283%29.zip
Request Number
VID-132_speakup_change_a_life
Running Time
3:00
Long Teaser

Here is a real example of the impact that an empowered worker had on our patients—starting with 8-year-old Lucy Scott.

Communicator (reporters)
Non-LMP
Editor (if known, reporters)
Non-LMP
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Status
Released
Date of publication

Here is a real example of the impact that an empowered worker had on our patients—starting with 8-year-old Lucy Scott.

 

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