The Pharmacy Services Division of Neil Medical Group offers a complete package of services to meet the varied, dynamic and growing needs of today's health care providers. An established leader in providing Pharmaceutical services, Neil Medical Group's Pharmacy Services Division provides complete dispensing services and medication delivery seven days per week. Our toll free telephone and FAX lines offer convenient ordering twenty-four hours a day, seven days per week. Continuing education and many years of experience are hallmarks of our consultant and dispensing pharmacists. These highly qualified professionals are very capable of responding to the many complex needs of today's health care providers.

The Prospective Payment System (PPS) significantly impacts the reimbursement process for nursing facilities. These changes affect the reimbursement for ancillary services such as pharmacy as well. Along with the changes come challenges and opportunities to provide optimum resident care in a cost-effective manner. Our Pharmacy Services Division is committed to support facilities in those efforts. The Neil Medical Group PPS "Drug Tip", Drug Therapy Intervention Plan is a major component of our effort to reduce medication related costs while maintaining safe and effective medication utilization. The emphasis of the plan is twofold. First, our consultant pharmacists will provide a preview of anticipated drug costs prior to admission. Then we will work closely with facility staff for opportunities to recommend cost-saving alternative drug therapies. These steps may result in very substantial savings for the facility without compromising resident care.

With our medical formulary support and our managed care initiatives, we welcome the opportunity to identify ways to reduce medication-related costs. Comprehensive Consultant Pharmacist Services Our experienced consultants regularly provide educational and informational in-services to the facility staff, patients and family members. They also work closely with the nursing staff to develop policies and procedures on all aspects of acquisition, disposition, handling, storage and administration of medications in the facility. We also work with you regarding drug interactions, side effects, and inappropriate medication use. Our pharmacists actively participate on committees such as Psychoactive Review, Infection Control and Pharmaceutical Services Review. They also perform monthly med-pass monitoring.

We offer a variety of customized Physicians Order forms, Medication Administration Records, CNA Flow Sheets, and Treatment Records. The pharmacy also makes available accurate, complete and timely, multiple reports such as a Psychotropic Drug Use List, Diet List, Restraint List, Lab List, plus others, to assist the nursing staff.

We are pleased to offer comprehensive IV therapy services which include carefully prepared IV admixtures using laminar flow hoods; on-call twenty-four hour support, on site staff training in IV therapy; IV certification and refresher courses; development of policies and procedures and IV nurse consulting services.