eq-life(R) and Fairview Pharmacy Services Announce Multi-Year Consulting Contract with Aleg... ( Consultancy to Address...)

eq-life(R) and Fairview Pharmacy Services Announce Multi-Year Consulting Contract with Alegent Health

Date:3/28/2008

Consultancy to Address Circle of Patient Care

ST. PAUL, Minn., March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Mike Marolt, president of St. Paul-based eq-life(R), announced today the company's collaboration with Fairview Pharmacy Services to provide pharmacy operations consulting to hospital organizations across the country. The consultancy has signed a multi-year agreement with Omaha-based Alegent Health to grow its retail pharmacy operations.

Alegent Health is the largest not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system in Nebraska and southwestern Iowa, with nine acute care hospitals, more than 100 sites of service, more than 1,300 physicians and approximately 8,600 employees.

"We are always looking for new ways to improve our patients' experiences," said Russ Gronewold, vice president of Ambulatory/Retail Development at Alegent Health. "Our partnership with eq-life and Fairview Pharmacy Services offers us a new approach to pharmacy. By building relationships between pharmacists and doctors, patients will find what the doctor ordered at the pharmacy down the hall."

"We are pleased to partner with Fairview Pharmacy Services to provide Alegent and other clients with opportunities to enhance patient care while improving bottom line pharmacy performance," said Marolt. "The hospital-based retail pharmacy marketplace is at a critical juncture to benefit from the consulting services we provide."

The current process for managing on-campus pharmacies often results in lost opportunities for improved patient care and business growth, says Marolt. Typically, more than 90 percent of prescriptions written on a hospital campus are filled off-site, often at chain pharmacies, preventing patients from receiving personal guidance from a pharmacist within their physicians' system.

The unique retail pharmacy approach for health care systems developed by eq-life and Fairview Pharmacy Services evaluates the entire patient experience, including the dev
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