Karen Pellegrin, PhD, MBA Anita Ciarleglio, PhD, RPh UNIVERSITY ...

6/11/2013
PHARM-2-PHARM AIMS
Better health
Better care
Lower costs
60%
50%
% population growth 1990-2010
50%
Specifically, reduce annual
medication-related
hospitalizations & ER visit rates
and total cost of care among
elderly/others at risk in rural
Hawaii*
40%
30%
20%
14%
*According to Hawaii Health Information Corporation, there were over 15,000 medication-related ER
visits and over 700 medication-related hospitalizations among elderly in rural counties of Hawaii in
2010, resulting in over $63,000,000 in charges to payers.
10%
0%
Honolulu County
Rural Counties (Hawaii,
Kauai, & Maui)
60%
50%
40%
30%
Projected HI population growth 2010-2040
53%
MODEL
A formal hospital pharmacist-to-community pharmacist collaboration (called
“pharmacist-to-pharmacist” or “Pharm2Pharm”)
Designed to address gaps in care among patients at risk as they transition from
hospital to community settings
Designed to leverage accessibility of community pharmacists in rural Hawaii*
20%
14%
10%
0%
Honolulu County
Rural Counties
*In Hawaii, the 2012 physician shortage in the metropolitan county of Honolulu is 13% of current supply compared
to a shortage of 44% across the three rural counties targeted in this project
(http://www.ahec.hawaii.edu/workforce.html)
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