Apexus

One of AIMM’s earliest and most steadfast partners is Apexus, the non-profit contractor that works with more than 29,000 health care providers across the U.S. to lower their costs for purchasing outpatient pharmaceutical products, allowing them to stretch their resources to serve more low-income and uninsured patients. As the exclusive contractor for the 340B Drug Pricing Program, managed by the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), Apexus negotiates significant discounts for branded and generic pharmaceuticals while working with providers to help them comply with 340B regulations and guidance. Apexus works closely with HRSA’s Office of Pharmacy Affairs to improve the integrity of the 340B program.

Apexus is a partner with AIMM and ASHP to offer the National A3 Collaborative.  Apexus was an early supporter of the AIMM Collaborative, and the work originally initiated through the Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative, by awarding team scholarships to organizations that are making a positive impact on high-risk patient populations. Apexus is supporting scholarship funding to cover partial participation fees for all organizations interested in being a part of the A3 Collaborative. For more information about Apexus, visit www.apexus.com and www.340Bpvp.com

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

ASHP represents pharmacists who serve as patient care providers in acute and ambulatory settings. The organization’s more than 43,000 members include pharmacists, student pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians. For 75 years, ASHP has been at the forefront of efforts to improve medication use and enhance patient safety. ASHP is partnering with AIMM and Apexus to offer the National A3 Collaborative, a leading-edge learning collaborative that offers healthcare providers support to accelerate the implementation of sustainable comprehensive medication management (CMM) services. ASHP members are working on interprofessional teams in all settings, including ambulatory clinics, and are doing so many important things on behalf of their patients.  The A3 Collaborative provides an opportunity for them to take their practices to the next level with a national learning collaborative and network of high performing peers. Visit ASHP’s website, www.ashp.org, or its consumer website, www.SafeMedication.com.

Cardinal Health Foundation

The Cardinal Health Foundation has a unique mission, strategy and target audience. Endeavors by the Foundation include providing financial support to healthcare organizations that want to hit the daily double of cost effectiveness: improving quality and controlling costs—at the same time.

The Cardinal Health Foundation has partnered with AIMM to facilitate a learning collaborative for its E3 (Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Excellence) Grant Program.  The E3 program sought to impact the quality of health care, and offers grantees an opportunity over a three-year period to better realize their vision by taking the project to scale and making it sustainable.

Most recently, the Cardinal Health Foundation awarded nearly $1 million in grants to impact the opioid epidemic across five states. The Foundation’s new Optimal Prescribing in Pain Management (OPPM) initiative engages state pharmacy associations and schools of pharmacy in partnerships that will facilitate efforts by pharmacists to collaborate with other healthcare providers and patients to support optimal medication use in pain management. AIMM will support the grantees through a learning collaborative designed to produce action, measurement and increase impact by offering its expertise through convening and coaching the healthcare organizations to improve outcomes and reduce costs.

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.

Empire Health Foundation

Empire Health Foundation (EHF) is a private health conversion foundation headquartered in Spokane, WA. Every investment made by EHF goes toward creating measurable, sustainable health improvements in four focus areas: improving health outcomes; strengthening health systems; growing physician supply; and building non-profit capacity.

EHF is partnering with AIMM in an 18-month initiative designed to improve care for high-risk patients over the age of 50 in the rural communities of Eastern Washington. Of the more than 141,000 residents spread over 6 counties, it is estimated that 30,000 residents over the age of 50 are managing more than one chronic condition, taking numerous medications and seeing multiple providers.

For this population, the health care delivery system isn’t structured to deliver the level of coordinated, integrated, patient centered care these patients need to manage their chronic conditions and medications. This high-risk, vulnerable population needs access to medication management services integrated with primary care. Along with its various state and national partners, Empire intends to build a regional medication management system with the capacity to improve and maintain the health of that population.

Hemophilia Alliance

The Hemophilia Alliance is a not-for-profit organization that comprises hemophilia treatment centers (HTCs) that either have, or are seeking to have, factor delivery programs under Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act. The Alliance serves to promote the common interests of these HTCs and through its mission provide member HTCs with resources and services to sustain the Comprehensive Care Model for individuals with bleeding and clotting disorders.  A strong synergy between the Alliance and AIMM is to support the care delivery of a Comprehensive Care Model that incorporate medication management.  AIMM has received operational grant support from the Alliance to help all health care organizations, including HTCs develop medication management services that will impact all patients. Learn more about the Hemophilia Alliance.

Iowa Healthcare Collaborative

The Iowa Healthcare Collaborative (IHC) is a provider-led and patient-focused nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting a culture of continuous improvement in healthcare. IHC’s mission is exceptional healthcare in Iowa and plays a unique role in putting healthcare providers (e.g., physicians, nurses and hospital executives) in a leadership position to drive clinical improvements and accelerate change. IHC is a partner in the state’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded State Innovation Model (SIM) grant and will convene Learning Community education sessions, provide online learning resources, and ensure technical assistance.

AIMM is partnering with IHC to support their efforts to achieve its aims with the Iowa SIM grant.  AIMM will serve as an integral resource for the state’s six Community Care Coalitions (C3s), as they develop strategies to address integrated medication management approaches as a catalyst for change within communities.  C3s are locally-based coalitions of health and social service stakeholders collaborating to promote the coordination of health and social services across care settings and systems of care.