November 11, 2010—The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has bestowed awards on multiple health care teams across the country for their achievements in the agency’s Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative (PSPC).
Now in its third year, PSPC’s mission is to improve health care outcomes by integrating evidence-based clinical pharmacy services into the care and management of high-risk, high-cost, complex patients. It works through teams made up of community-based health care providers.
The honorees were announced at a recent PSPC meeting in Dallas. Click here for the complete list.
Sixteen teams received awards for implementing and demonstrating improvements in clinical pharmacy services, another 16 for reporting health outcome measures for at least five months and using them to manage target patient populations, seven for saving at least one patient’s life by preventing a life-threatening adverse drug event, and nine for documenting clinical performance gains and improved patient outcomes.
Three other teams received awards for initiatives that used publications produced by the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Women’s Health.
“PSPC teams are continuing to show significant improvements and results,” said HRSA Administrator Mary K. Wakefield when announcing the awards. “They’re building on proven successes and sharing these with other teams to improve patient safety and health outcomes across the country.”
PSPC also has received an honor of its own, the 2010 Healthcare Transformation Award from Communities Joined in Action, a nonprofit health-care improvement organization.