August - Smith Drug

The newsletter of
Smith Drug Company
A Division of J M Smith Corporation
Spartanburg, SC
Paragould, AR
Valdosta, GA
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ADHERENCE IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE
Small Ways Your Pharmacy
Can Improve Transitions of Care
by Laura Bergs, PharmD
“Transitions of Care” is a new hot topic in health care. Our health care system has become so segmented and
specialized that gaps have formed
where there was once continuity of
care. As patients transition from one
segment of health care to the next,
such as from the hospital back into
the community, the risk of discrepancies existing in their medication
regimen increases.
Hospitals face a reduction in payments
across all of their Medicare admissions
if their readmission rate is higher than
the projected rate for their hospital,
and the reduction is higher the more a
hospital exceeds those projections. In
a study at Johns Hopkins, pharmacists
found an average of two medication
discrepancies per patient following a
hospital discharge. Examples of the
discrepancies found were the wrong
dose, missing labs, and two medications from the same drug class. Patients in this study were also surveyed,
and 100 percent said that their knowledge about their medications improved
significantly after the pharmacist
discussed their medications with them.
This highlights a great opportunity for
community pharmacists to play a role
in transitions of care to help improve
patient outcomes and assist hospitals
in avoiding those penalties.
Some pharmacists have started programs to help address this need. One
way is to discuss with local hospital
administrators the services your phar14
macy can offer for recently discharged
patients to help reduce some of
those readmissions. There may be an
opportunity for a pilot program where
a pharmacist visits the hospital to
deliver a patient’s discharge medications, provide counseling to confirm
understanding of any changes to their
regimen, and ensure that the patient
will have proper monitoring and
follow-up. The hospital may be willing
to compensate a pharmacist for these
services if you can demonstrate the
cost savings by helping improve their
readmission rates and avoid the penalty of reduced Medicare payments.
If you don’t have the resources or
time to develop a new service right
now, you can still make an impact by
taking advantage of existing programs. NCPA’s Simplify My Meds®
(www.ncpanet.org/smm) is one example of a service that will allow you
to better serve patients as they make
transitions in health care. As part of
the program, the patient is contacted
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7-10 days before their synchronization
date to review their medications. This
is an excellent opportunity to ask the
patient if they’ve been to the hospital
and received any new medications or
changes to their regimen. This also
allows you plenty of time to resolve
any issues that may arise and order
new drugs they might need that you
don’t have in stock. The personalized,
one-on-one interaction with patients
as they come in to pick up their prescriptions will allow you to educate
them on any new medications.
Aside from the financial benefit to hospitals and pharmacies, more importantly having an impact on transitions
of care improves patient health as
you’ve helped them avoid an unnecessary trip to the hospital. It doesn’t
require a dramatic overhaul, but you
can still make a big difference. ■
Laura Bergs is a 2015 PharmD graduate
of the University of Oklahoma College
of Pharmacy.
SOURCE: America’s PHARMACIST | July 2015
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Nickels and Dimes
As if health insurance wasn’t already expensive enough,
health insurance companies are seeking to raise the cost
20 to 40 percent. According to the insurance companies,
the newly covered patients under the Affordable Care
Act are sicker than they had realized. Blue Cross and
Blue Shield plans are the biggest offenders. In Oklahoma
they are seeking a 36% increase in Tennessee and a 54%
increase in Minnesota. This is a completely unreasonable
increase potentially affecting millions of Americans
throughout the country. Laura Cali, the Oregon insurance
commissioner, already approved a 25 to 33% 2016
increase for plans that cover a quarter million people.
President Obama and other Federal officials are
encouraging consumers to reach out to their state
insurance regulators with the hope that their state won’t
follow in the footsteps of Oregon. With more than 1/6th
of the US economy being devoted to the cost of health
care, these cost increases would not only represent a huge
amount of money for tens of millions of insurees, they
would also have a significant impact on the economy at
large.
One can definitely argue that insurance markets are
simply adjusting to the “shock waves set off by the
Affordable Care Act,” but much of the expenditure is
due to waste and abuse. According to the Institute of
Medicine, up to 800 billion a year is lost due to these
inefficiencies. Just a few weeks ago, in June of 2015, 243
people were charged with Medicare abuse to the sum of
$712 million dollars. Unfortunately this is not an isolated
case. Instead of pushing these unnecessary costs onto the
citizens, it might make more sense to work on resolving
these bigger issues. Raising the costs of a damaged system
is like building a façade to hide the weak foundation
beneath.
Source - iMedicare
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Things to remember in
August
College Bound
Preparedness
Most Students leave home for college
in August. Are you prepared to take
care of their RX & OTC needs?
n Friday, September 4th and Tuesday
September 8th will be very busy. Plan your employee schedule now!
n Stock up on Personal Care items
n Labor Day is September 7th. Create signs informing customers of your hours. When making your Labor Day hours sign, don’t make “closed” the largest words on the sign.
Send each College student back to college with 4 toothbrushes
3 tubes of toothpaste and 2 rolls of floss!
n Create an end-cap and feature first aid dorm items:
thermometers, allergy meds, vitamins, lozenges and antibiotic ointment
n August and September are peak months for hurricane and tornado activity. Be prepared by having batteries, flashlights, first aid kits and bottled water.
n Remind college students to catch up on immunizations before they move into dormitories.
n SAFETY FIRST. Check your exterior lighting. Mare sure your doors and parking lot are well lit!
n Keep your shelves stocked with braces and hot and cold treatments for sports-related injuries.
n Time to evaluate your summer help. What will you do next year?
n Change it up - Rotate products near the register.
n Near a college campus? Place an ad in the college newspaper,
“You have enough going on, let us call or text when your prescription is ready or needs to be refilled”
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Awareness
Create Habits to Prevent
Employee Theft
n Your front door is the first think that your customers come in contact with everyday. Make a special effort to scrub it clean daily and remove any leftover pieces of tape or outdated notices.
It’s in our DNA to trust our employees, but
unfortunately there are some bad apples out
there. It’s okay to trust people, but you also
need to verify. Create habits now so you are
routinely checking for employee theft:
1. Set policies on when the back door is to
be used and who is allowed to use it—and
stick to those rules.
n August is National Immunization Awareness Month. Are your “FLU SHOTS AVAILABLE HERE” SIGNS UP?
2. Go through the trash on a regular basis.
Most internal theft of merchandise goes
into a trash bin, only to be taken out after
closing.
Time to Do Your Homework for Backto-School Time
3. Don’t leave the key in the register so that it
can be opened and ring in a no sale.
The back-to-school season started
as early as July 5 last year. Are you
ready for this year? Do a quick check
of your school supplies on hand and
determine what you may need to order
(a good place to start is by asking your
local elementary schools for a list of
their recommended school supplies
and carry those products). Aside
from school supplies, are you ready
to answer questions about vitamins,
cough and cold medications, head lice
treatments, and ankle/wrist bands/
wraps? The time to start planning is
now.
4. Do not allow purses, handbags, backpacks,
or any other personal belongings anywhere
near the cash register or in the pharmacy.
5. Pay for your stuff! That includes the bottle
of water out of the cooler or the cold
medicine you need to take home. Set an
example for your employees: “Nothing
goes out of this building unless it’s paid
for.” Source: Gabe Trahan NCPA
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FOUNDER OF LABOR DAY
The father of labor day
More than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, there is still
some doubt as to who first proposed the holiday for workers.
Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a co-founder of the
American Federation of Labor, was first in suggesting a day to honor
those “who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur
we behold.”
LABOR DAY: WHAT IT MEANS
Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the
labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic
achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national
tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength,
prosperity, and well-being of our country.
LABOR DAY LEGISLATION
Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor
Day. The first governmental recognition came through municipal
ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From these, a movement
developed to secure state legislation. The first state bill was
introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become
law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year
four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New
York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By
the end of the decade Connecticut, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania
had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday
in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed
an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal
holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
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But Peter McGuire’s place in Labor Day history has not gone
unchallenged. Many believe that Matthew Maguire, a machinist, not
Peter McGuire, founded the holiday. Recent research seems to support
the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local
344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J.,
proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central
Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the Central Labor
Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to
plan a demonstration and picnic.
THE FIRST LABOR DAY
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5,
1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central
Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day
holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.
In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday,
as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar
organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and
celebrate a “workingmen’s holiday” on that date. The idea spread
with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was
celebrated in many industrial centers of the country.
Source: www.dol.gov
Rosie:
By Any Other Name - The Riveting
True Story of the Labor Icon
Iconic image of Rosie the Riveter, but with
the words ‘Don’t Call me Rosie. Or Else!’
above her head. Certainly, one of the more
readily recognizable icons of labor is “Rosie
the Riveter,” the indefatigable World War IIera woman who rolled up her sleeves, flexed
her arm muscles and said, “We Can Do It!”
But, this isn’t the original Rosie.
In 1942, as World War II raged in Europe
and the Pacific and the song “Rosie the
Riveter” filled radio waves across the home
front, manufacturing giant Westinghouse
commissioned artist J. Howard Miller to
make a series of posters to promote the war
effort. One such poster featured the image
of a woman with her hair wrapped up in a
red polka-dot scarf, rolling up her sleeve and
flexing her bicep. At the top of the poster, the
words ‘We Can Do It!’ are printed in a blue
caption bubble. To many people, this image
is “the” Rosie the Riveter. But it was never the
intention to make this image “Rosie,” nor did
many Americans think of her as “Rosie.” The
connection of Miller’s image and “Rosie” is a
recent phenomenon.
The “Rosie” image popular during the war
was created by illustrator Norman Rockwell
(who had most certainly heard the “Rosie
the Riveter” song) for the cover of the
Saturday Evening Post on May 29, 1943 —
the Memorial Day issue. The image depicts
a muscular woman wearing overalls, goggles
and pins of honor on her lapel. She sports a
leather wrist band and rolled-up sleeves. She
sits with a riveting tool in her lap, eating a
sandwich, and “Rosie” is inscribed on her
lunch pail. And, she’s stepping on a copy of
Adolph Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf.”
The magazine cover exemplified the
American can-do spirit and illustrated the
notion of women working in previously
male-dominated manufacturing jobs, an
ever-growing reality, to help the United States
fight the war while the men fought over seas.
The cover was an enormous success and
soon stories about real life “Rosies” began
appearing in newspapers across the country.
The government took advantage of the
popularity of Rosie the Riveter and embarked
on a recruiting campaign of the same name.
The campaign brought millions of women
out of the home and into the workforce. To
this day, Rosie the Riveter is still considered
the most successful government advertising
campaign in history.
After the war, numerous requests were
made for the Saturday Evening Post image
of Rosie the Riveter, but Curtis Publishing,
the owner of the Post, refused all requests.
The publishing company was possibly
concerned that the composers of the song
“Rosie the Riveter” would hold them liable
for copyright infringement.
Since then, the J. Howard Miller “We
Can Do It!” image has replaced Norman
Rockwell’s illustration as “Rosie the Riveter”
in the minds of many people. Miller’s Rosie
has been imprinted on coffee mugs, mouse
pads, and countless other items, making
her and not the original “Rosie” the most
famous of all labor icons.
Source: www.dol.gov
JOB CORPS CELEBRATES 50 YEARS OF OPPORTUNITY
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched a series of programs aimed at restoring
our nation's fundamental promise of equality and opportunity. The Economic Opportunity Act,
signed on Aug. 20 of 1964 as part of President Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty," established
the Job Corps, a residential education and training program for disadvantaged young people ages
16-24. Today, nearly 2.7 million students have benefited from the Job Corps. At 125 centers in 48
states, students today learn the skills necessary to succeed in good jobs with high-growth potential
in a dynamic economy. Graduates learn career skills in more than 100 areas – from automotive
maintenance to information technology, from health care to hospitality, from construction to
IT. Some have become doctors, judges and entertainment executives. All across the country, Job
Corps centers are celebrating this historic milestone with demonstrations, open houses, local
proclamations, and other events. We're also sharing stories from some of the people whose lives
have been most deeply transformed by the program on our blog. You can contribute by submitting
your story through our Web form here − or share on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram using the
hashtag #JobCorps50.
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WHY CHOOSE ALLI
alli can help boost your weight loss when used as directed. For
every 2 lbs you lose through diet and exercise, alli can help you lose
one more. It sounds simple and great, but keep in mind that alli
only works when you do. Eat a reduced-calorie, low-fat diet and alli
can be the best weight loss aid you ever had.*
HOW ALLI WORKS ALLI FIGHTS FAT.
It works in the digestive system blocking about 25% of the fat you
eat from getting absorbed. And since alli is only slightly absorbed
in the bloodstream, it means no direct effects on the cardiovascular
system and central nervous system.
HOW ALLI WORKS
alli fights fat. It works in the digestive system blocking about 25%
of the fat you eat from getting absorbed. And since alli is only
slightly absorbed in the bloodstream, it means no direct effects on
the cardiovascular system and central nervous system.
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to determine if you’re pregnant. Choose the Fact Plus Pregnancy Test Stick for over 99% accurate
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Pampers Brand Available from Smith Drug
Welcome to a World of Love, Sleep, and Play
What’s the secret to raising
a happy, healthy baby?
The truth is, there really
isn’t one. As long as babies
get lots of love, plenty of
sleep to grow and develop,
and in time, the freedom to
play their own way, you’ll be
giving them a great start.
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Please remember when ordering
Pennsylvania Dutch candy,
chocolate can still melt even though
it is packed in coolers with ice
packs. Often times in transit it
could be left on a dock somewhere
over the weekend or for a long
period of time. Ice packs can only
last so long especially with the heat
we are having. Other items seemed
to be shipping ok.
CANDY
EQUALS
PROFIT
1-800-572-1216 EXT 1492
ATTN: RANDY LAWTER
Trade Show Order Procedure
Orders from the Trade Show are treated as follows:
1. Trade Show Deadline is August 7th.
2. As orders are faxed in they are separated by customer.
3. File maintenance will collect the orders and enter in the system.
4. Reports are run to determine product quantities.
5. Reports are sent to purchasing where purchase orders are created and sent to
vendors.
6. When product is received, orders will be released to be shipped.
7. Gift items and Drop Shipped orders are entered immediately and sent to
vendors. Usually this are shipped fairly quick. Drop ship items will not have
price stickers. Please refer to your order pages for pricing.
8. Some manufacturers have high minimums. Sometimes we are not able to
meet the minimums. If product is not going to be available, you will be
notified.
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Can you spot
which sock is
compression
legwear?
We didn’t think so.
Please call 800-572-1216, Jennifer Blackston ext. 1242 or Jim Stevens ext. 1503 for more details
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