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As health systems face rising costs, staffing shortages, and ongoing 340B contract pharmacy restrictions, leaders face the difficult task of how to balance solving acute financial challenges with investing in initiatives to further their organization’s long-term growth and strategic goals.

One solution that meets both needs: expanding in-house outpatient pharmacy services. However, in my experience, health systems will only find success when these services are intentionally designed to drive measurable improvements in patient outcomes.

On March 30 at 12PM ET, I am participating in a Becker’s Hospital Review panel discussion with other health system leaders focused on how to establish an entity-owned specialty pharmacy service capable of impacting every aspect of a health system’s strategic plan.

I encourage you to register today to gain insights on:

• How an optimized specialty pharmacy service can further a health system’s broader goals around care quality, patient experience, provider engagement, and stakeholder engagement
• Why achieving – and proving – strong clinical

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It’s a head-spinning Catch-22: Covered entities have never been more crucial to the well-being of community health—or more challenged to sustain their very existence. They’re dedicated to serving the most vulnerable patient communities in the United States, but constantly find themselves up against threats to the 340B program.

And yet, driven by a resolute commitment to patient care, many covered entities continue to expand their missions in the face of 340B dilemmas.

That’s why if you’re a covered entity looking to sustainably grow your 340B program in today’s ever-changing environment, I hope you’ll join me for an upcoming webinar you don’t want to miss:
Mission Possible: Future-Proofing Your 340B Program. On Tuesday, March 29^th at 2 pm Eastern, we’ll be chatting with Karen Musgrove, CEO of Birmingham AIDS Outreach (BAO), about how her organization scaled its impact while continuing to offer personalized and compassionate community care. We’ll kick PowerPoint slides to the curb and instead engage in a lively discussion

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Drastic federal cuts to the 340B program. Alarming changes to Gilead’s Advancing Access Program. If your organization is a federal grantee or health system providing HIV care and/or prevention services, you know there has never been a more important time to future-proof your program—while still offering the highest standards of compassionate care.

What’s more, how entities provide care to their communities is quickly changing. Per CDC guidelines, providers are encouraged to prescribe PrEP to any patient who asks for it, and to have conversations about PrEP with all sexually active adolescent and adult patients. Telehealth is making care more accessible to rural communities, as well as eliminating some of the barriers and fears for patients who don’t feel comfortable in traditional health care settings.

What does all that mean for covered entities? It means the landscape is changing quickly, and there is an urgent need to consider the entire health care journey of all your patients, both those who

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Each year, Visante publishes its list of the top 10 issues facing hospital and health system pharmacy. In 2022, many challenges derive from the pandemic but also present opportunities for leaders to implement new solutions that will drive stronger performance in the future.

1. The Pandemic

With a second pandemic winter to deal with, many of the country’s hospitals and other 340B providers need help. Overall, 80+% of hospitals are still struggling with being short-staffed and backlogged from the last wave of COVID-19 as well as challenged financially with increased expenses and decreased revenue. Health centers and other 340B providers have faced many of the same challenges and have played a crucial role in treating our most vulnerable patient populations during this unprecedented time. 340B covered entities are now looking at colder months with a potentially bad influenza season creating a possible “twindemic” situation. Hospitals and other 340B covered entities are looking at a possible “perfect storm” of high demand,