Medco Health Solutions Named "Outstanding Company" Providing Excellence in Pharmaceutical Care; "Creativity, Ingenuity" Cited in Medco's Pharmacy for the Future.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers BONITA Bonita (Spanish and Portuguese for "beautiful") is the name of:
Medco Health Solutions Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MHS) is a leading pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) company based in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. The current chairman is David Snow. The company formed in August 2003 as a spinoff from Merck & Co.. today received its industry's equivalent of the Oscar - recognized as the "Excellence in Pharmaceutical Care - Outstanding Company" of 2002 at an awards ceremony this evening. The award as Outstanding Company was recognition linked to Medco Health's development of the world's largest and most technically advanced automated home delivery pharmacy, which opened late last year in Willingboro, N.J., as a complement to its first automated pharmacy in Nevada. "Medco Health's sustained creativity and ingenuity in creating an environment that delivers safe, effective, pharmaceutical care to millions of patients reflects not only on itself, but the profession of pharmacy and the entire managed care industry," said LaVarne Burton, president, Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA PCMA Professional Convention Management Association PCMA Pharmaceutical Care Management Association PCMA Professional Coaches and Mentors Association PCMA Paired Carrier Multiple Access PCMA Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology ), which presented the awards at the organization's annual meeting. Medco Health is an independently managed subsidiary of Merck & Co. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : MRK MRK Merck & Company (stock symbol) MRK Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster (anomaly) MRK Manual Remote Keying ). In its first full year of operation, the Willingboro pharmacy dispensed about 20 million prescriptions for Medco Health members. The automated pharmacies are central to Medco Health's "Pharmacy for the Future" initiative, which leverages proprietary technologies to fundamentally improve virtually every aspect of providing pharmacy care. Pharmacy for the Future integrates myriad elements that include the use of electronic prescribing devices in a doctor's office, instantaneous patient-safety checks at retail pharmacy to prevent potentially harmful drug-to-drug interactions, the company's industry-leading Internet pharmacy internet pharmacy Online A website that offers prescription drugs from the comfort of home Cons The IP or prescribing physician may not be qualified or licensed to prescribe drugs in all states. See Operation Cure-All, VIPPS. and the world's most sophisticated automated home delivery pharmacies. "There is no greater honor than to be recognized by your peers for the care that you provide to your patients," said Bob Blyskal, executive vice president, Medco Health, in accepting the award at ceremonies here this evening. "I proudly accept this award on behalf of the 16,000 Medco Health employees whose focus every day is the relentless pursuit of delivering world-class prescription healthcare services to our 65 million members at a cost our clients can afford. While we call it `Pharmacy for the Future,' the reality is that Medco Health people deliver on that promise today and every day." The award was one of three bestowed on Medco Health. Medco Health's pharmacists shared with their colleagues from five other pharmacy benefit managers the Latiolais Honor Medal, which is given to those displaying exemplary service to the managed healthcare arena. The award was accepted by two Medco Health pharmacists: Tony Russo, director of pharmacy practice Pharmacy practice is the discipline of pharmacy which involves developing the professional roles of pharmacists. Areas of pharmacy practice include:
"Their professionalism, hard work, commitment and provision of quality, patient-focused pharmaceutical care is recognized as key to our PBM PBM - play by mail. See play by electronic mail. member companies' record of safety and reliability - ensuring they deliver the right drug to the right patient for the right outcome," said Burton. Vicki Knighton, director, state government affairs, was recognized with the PCMA Legislative Service Award for her advocacy on issues before state legislators and regulators, and for her ability to build a winning consensus among divergent interests on challenging policy issues. In addition, Robert Marotta, Medco Health's long-standing representative to the PCMA Board of Directors, was named the organization's incoming chairman. Marotta is an attorney with Kegler keg·ler n. A person who bowls; a bowler. [German, from kegeln, to bowl, from Kegel, bowling pin, from Middle High German kegel, from Old High German kegil , Brown, Hill and Ritter rit·ter n. pl. ritter A knight. [German, from Middle High German riter, from Middle Dutch ridder, from r , based in Columbus, Ohio About Medco Health Medco Health Solutions, Inc., (www.medcohealth.com) is the nation's leading provider of prescription healthcare services, based on the $29 billion in drug spend the company managed for its clients in 2001. Formerly known as Merck-Medco, Medco Health is a wholly owned and independently managed subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., and assists its clients to moderate the cost and enhance the quality of prescription drug prescription drug Prescription medication Pharmacology An FDA-approved drug which must, by federal law or regulation, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription–eg, finished dose form and active ingredients subject to the provisos of the Federal Food, Drug, benefits provided to 65 million Americans nationwide. |
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