Long Term Care Pharmacy
What is Long-Term Care?
Long-term care is a variety of services that includes medical and non-medical care to people who have a chronic illness or disability. Long-term care helps meet health or personal needs. Most long-term care is to assist people with support services such as activities of daily living like dressing, bathing, and using the bathroom. Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, in assisted living or in nursing homes. It is important to remember that you may need long-term care at any age.
You may never need long-term care. This year, about nine million men and women over the age of 65 will need long-term care. By 2020, 12 million older Americans will need long-term care. Most will be cared for at home; family and friends are the sole caregivers for 70 percent of the elderly. A study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that people who reach age 65 will likely have a 40 percent chance of entering a nursing home. About 10 percent of the people who enter a nursing home will stay there five years or more.
How does Hartzell’s Pharmacy provide LTC?
Hartzell’s Pharmacy provides pharmacy, medical equipment, supply, and consultative services to several assisted living facilities, personal care, and group homes in the Lehigh Valley. We have designed our dispensing systems with multiple checkpoints to prevent adverse drug interactions and maintained customized medication records for our client facilities. Hartzell’s Pharmacy provides consultant pharmacists who conduct on-site drug regimen reviews for each resident, assessing the efficacy of drug therapies and often providing recommendations to medication regimens resulting in improved overall patient care. We offer an array of other services that include various blister packaging systems, such as cycle filling and medication adherence packaging, pharmacist counseling, liaison with physicians’ offices, door to door delivery, and emergency pharmacist support 24 hours a day and 365 days a year.
Hartzell’s Pharmacy offers:
- Multiple Daily Deliveries
- Customized Medication Packaging
- Participation in most Medicare Part D Plans
- Proprietary Systems and Technology
- Customized Reports, Forms and Billing
- Prescription Document Imaging System
- Transition support and training
- Ongoing on-site training for Facility Staff
- Educational Industry Specific Seminars
- Strong Participation in Fund Raising and Charitable Facility events
Just call our friendly staff and we will be happy to provide more information!
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