Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a grant agreement with the Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio, Inc. (CPCO) for the purpose of establishing and expanding pharmacy services associated with a direct medical referral linkage of new patients to receive these services. This linkage will produce an increase in the number of new patients qualified to be patients at CPCO and to medication therapy evaluation, patient disease management and medication education that will lead to improved health status. This linkage will produce/expand clinical information feedback to the patient’s primary care physician for medical management.
Patients currently come to CPCO from hospitals, medical offices, mental health agency patient care coordinators, homeless shelters and halfway houses, federally qualified health centers and word of mouth from family and friends. This grant will allow CPCO to create and expand a process of direct patient referral with specific organizations with which we currently collaborate (ex. Physicians Care Connection, Mount Carmel Mobile Clinic, and others to be determined). The City of Columbus will have the opportunity to identify other direct referral partners as it becomes feasible to expand to include other referral partners.
The Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio is located at 200 East Livingston Avenue and is a pharmacy licensed by the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy. The collaborative work of community, church, and healthcare organizations produced the creation of this 501(c)3 corporation in 2008 that opened as the Charitable Pharmacy in February of 2010.
Emergency action is requested so that the delivery of important program services to the community can begin without delay.
FISCAL IMPACT: $25,000 is budgeted from the Emergency Human Services Fund for this purpose.
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To approve the grant application of the Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio, Inc. seeking fi...
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