(Efficiency:  The ability to do things without waste of time or energy.)

Institutional pharmacies service the long-term care market, which includes millions of patients living in more than 14,000 licensed skilled nursing facilities, more than 15,000 assisted-living facilities, and thousands of retirement and other extended care facilities.  Annualized spending on prescription drugs within these settings approached $12 billion in 2002.  That is expected to grow 6 to 9 percent to more than $20 billion in 2010.  Despite the dramatic changes and challenges faced by the long-term care customers, the institutional pharmacy industry has remained essentially unchanged for more than 20 years.

Institutional pharmacies have remained focused on taking advantage of the long-running industry consolidation process, rather than on the longer-term effort to better service customers through innovation.  The time is long overdue to transform the institutional pharmacy industry.  

NuScript_RX is ready today to take advantage of the customers’ pent up demand for dramatic improvements in patient care, service and safety, with its need for labor efficiencies and lowering costs.

Efficiency = New Innovations = Lowering Costs

NuScript_RX makes your operation more “efficient” with

• A central pharmacy in Nashville that is equipped with beyond-the-state-of-the-art automation, advanced communications and identification technologies, powerful workflow software, and world class distribution methods.
  
  
• A paperless communication process that uses advanced document management software. Nurses and doctors communicate with the pharmacy through an electronic medical record system, a fax or scanning device, or NuScript_RX unique PharmComsm communications system, which is located at each nursing station with the customer’s facility.
  
  
• A “PouchPak” system that streamlines the med-pass process, reducing the required time by as much as 50 percent and greatly reducing the opportunity for errors. Each packet bears the patient’s name; the med-pass time; and the medication’s name, description and a corresponding bar code.
  
  
• Automated on-site dispensing that allows the nurse to fill new or emergency medications around the clock, while remaining under the control of our pharmacists. Once the nurse transmits the physician’s order to the pharmacy, our pharmacists will complete the clinical review and process the prescription through the push of a button.  Within minutes, the drug is available for the nurse to administer.

Billions of Dollars Lost:

Today’s medication dispensing paradigm fails to “efficiently” meet the needs of long-term care providers and the patients they serve.

FACT:  A study by the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists indicates that the annual cost of unnecessary care given as a result of medication-related errors in nursing homes alone to be nearly $4 billion.  Waste and returns are staggering.  Medications are often shipped with a 30-day supply, even though there are frequent order changes, discharges or deaths of patients within that time.  An estimated 5 to 15 percent of these drugs are never consumed and are wasted, diverted, re-stocked or destroyed, accounting for approximately $5 billion a year in skilled nursing facilities alone.

OUR ANSWER:  NuScript_RX service model empowers facility management to significantly reduce costs by eliminating waste and by providing real-time clinical and cost information.

Please visit our Products and Services page for detailed information about NuScript_RX revolutionary service model.