Health system views pharmacist as vital to coordinated care

摘要

For more than a year, a rural health system in central Minnesota has been offering select patients a medical home, complete with a pharmacist.rnLakewood Health System, with its main campus just east of 4.5-square-mile Staples, started its patient-centered medical home in early 2008.rnHospital-based clinical pharmacist Julie Moriak has been providing ambulatory care pharmacy services to Lakewood's medical home patients from the start.rnThe medical home operates out of the Staples Clinic, on the middle floor of the large building at the health system's main campus, Moriak said. On the top floor is the 25-bed critical-access hospital, and on the basement, or lowest, floor are the ancillary service departments.