Nursing Home

What Makes Us a Better Pharmacy

Quality First Pharmacy strives to help improve the quality of life for aging individuals. Our team understands the medication challenges and budget constraints nursing homes handle. Let us at Quality First Pharmacy manage your prescription budget so you can focus on your residents care.

Survey Preparedness

Quality First Pharmacy provides quarterly visits for drug care inspections and mock surveys. We also:

• Check labels
• Check expiration dates
• Check for discontinued drugs
• Observed drug pass
• Alert home to latest deficiency trends, i.e. over use of anti-psychotics

Mars

In order to keep your records organized, we provide Medical Administration Records (MARS). We will customize them to suit our customer’s needs.

Medication Cost Administration

Our pharmacy provides unique services to manage your prescription budget by:

• Inform Director of Nursing of drugs not covered by insurance
• Monthly statements delivered by the 5th of the month
• Statements are not sent to Medicaid pending patients
• Transparent billing – show true drug cost
• Low cost or over-the-counter medications for everyone in your nursing home
• If requested, we can provide price quotes
• Private pay patients pay by credit card

Formulary

Quality First Pharmacy provides a way to manage your pharmacy costs. We will help you achieve the ultimate goal by managing and working with a formulary.

Delivery Services

Our pharmacy will work with your staff to customize the most efficient delivery schedule. Quality First Pharmacy can arrange emergency deliveries to you after hours and on weekends upon special request. We can develop a system to make your automatic refills easier for your staff to manage. For example: if you have a 100 bed nursing home, we can rotate patients medication deliveries to 25 patients per week to reduce the burden on your staff. Weekend and after-hours delivery for new admits, antibiotics and pain medication(s) is available.

Liaison

Our team cares beyond prescriptions. Our staff strives to anticipate your needs by contacting doctors, pharmacies, and insurance companies to insure you are not without medication. We work together to become an essential part of your care team.

Dispensing Coordination

All routine medication(s) are automatically filled every four weeks. Our qualified staff will contact your doctor on all prescription refill authorizations.

Quality First Pharmacy strives to customize individual pharmacy needs for routine and compounded medications. Our staff will gladly show you how Quality First Pharmacy can easily provide you with your medications.