Cardinal Health Foundation
The Cardinal Health Foundation focuses its work on three initiatives: Investing in community health and healthcare, supporting Cardinal Health employees’ commitment to the communities where they live and work, and fighting prescription drug misuse through its Generation Rx program (created in partnership with The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy) and the company’s Opioid Action Program.
Through many of our grant programs, we engage grantees in learning collaboratives, where they can learn from subject matter experts and each other as they work toward measurable outcomes. We have partnered with AIMM to provide such support to healthcare grantees.
The Foundation recently awarded nearly $1 million in grants to impact the opioid epidemic across five states through its new Optimal Prescribing in Pain Management (OPPM) initiative. This program engages state pharmacy associations and schools of pharmacy to facilitate pharmacists’ efforts to collaborate with other healthcare providers and patients to support optimal medication use in pain management. AIMM is supporting the grantees through a learning collaborative designed to produce action, measurement and increase impact.
Earlier, the Cardinal Health Foundation engaged AIMM to facilitate a learning collaborative for a grant program called E3 (Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Excellence) in Healthcare. E3 grants were designed to impact the quality of healthcare, and offered recipients multi-year funding to take their healthcare improvement projects to scale and make them sustainable.
Concordia University
Wisconsin School of Pharmacy
Concordia University Wisconsin’s School of Pharmacy (CUW-SOP) is committed to the development of pharmacists and professionals who are servant leaders, dedicated to improving the health of our communities through excellence in teaching, research, service, and practice. The CUW campus is located 15 miles north of downtown Milwaukee and provides a great opportunity for synergy with hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies in Southeastern Wisconsin, as well as in the remainder of the state.
CUW-SOP, in partnership with CUW’s Batterman School of Business and with financial support from The Dohmen Company, is offering an 18-month initiative, the Concordia Medication Management Accelerator, (CMMA). It will surface effective CMM programs and foster growth by creating conversations among a number of stakeholders to create demand and opportunity for comprehensive medication management services across the state. The CMMA promotes entrepreneurial thinking in the area of CMM by awarding more than $50,000 to entrepreneurs with the most compelling business plans for CMM initiatives.
CUW-SOP is partnering with AIMM for its learning collaborative methods and consultancy. Up to 10 Wisconsin-based organizations will participate in a CMMA learning experience that will allow them to adapt AIMM’s strategies employed by front-line practitioners in partnership with organizational leaders to assume accountability for patient safety and health, improve quality of care, and champion payment models that recognize the value of medication management services integrated in to a comprehensive and coordinated approach to primary care.