Whitney Walker
18Sep

Employee Spotlight | Whitney Walker

Meet Whitney Walker, this week’s Employee Spotlight! Whitney is an excellent and dedicated pharmacist here at Mac’s LTC Pharmacy Solutions. She brings joy in the pharmaceutical care for our patients and communities we serve. She has worked in various areas of pharmacy including academics, community, and long-term care. Committed to lifelong learning and eager to stay current on the latest information and technologies, Whitney provides positive outcomes for our patients!

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pill press
18Sep

LTC Pharmacy Logistics

 

Long-term care (LTC) pharmacies serve the residents of nursing homes, assisted-living communities, extended-care communities, and retirement communities. LTC pharmacies operate differently than most traditional pharmacies. Usually, these pharmacies are “closed-door,” meaning that no patients walk-in to fill prescriptions. LTC pharmacy procedures go above and beyond many retail pharmacy processes, with core services including prescription processing, dispensing and delivery, medication management, return, reuse, and disposal of medications.

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fruit salad with glucose meter
18Sep

Food to Eat to Help Prevent Diabetes

At Mac’s LTC Pharmacy Solutions, we pride ourselves on improving the health of our community partners’ residents, but we also aim to educate clients before their health declines. We offer the communities we partner with education services for their residents and also their staff. It is important to be well-educated on proper medication administration, pharmacy services, and healthy habits. Our on-site education opportunities teach a number of topics such as heart health, nutrition practices, and diabetes-related courses. Diabetes can be a complex and expensive disease that requires constant self-management. The optimum way to control diabetes is to prevent it from happening. The best way to prevent diabetes is to control what you eat, and Mac’s LTC Pharmacy Solutions has provided a list of foods that can help you do just that.

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Macs LTC Pharmacy locally owned
18Sep

Why a Family Operated Business that is Locally-Owned Matters

Mac’s LTC Pharmacy Solutions is a family operated business, in addition to being locally-owned. At Mac’s LTC we can focus on our senior living communities and their residents’ needs located throughout the Southeastern region of the United States. So, why does being a business that is family operated or locally owned benefit with this goal?

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positive culture
18Sep

Tips for Maintaining a Positive Culture

Company culture is in essence, a magnified scope of a company’s core values and beliefs. At Mac’s LTC our values are to be caring, trustworthy, innovative, genuine, and driven. Maintaining a positive company culture is essential for your company to be well-rounded and successful. For you to ensure the culture at your firm is nurturing to success, it is imperative that you align your values with organizational goals. The environment of an office can have a profound impact on an employee’s reactions and outcomes, which can affect the business as a whole. There are four simple tips for maintaining a positive culture that you can implement in the office every day.

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macs staff with man
18Sep

Positive Relationships and Cultures: What No One Teaches

At Mac’s LTC Pharmacy Solutions, improving lives through relationships is central to our mission. Strong bonds are present both with our team members and our partners. As a whole, Mac’s LTC values being caring, trustworthy, innovative, genuine, and driven. These values shape how we cultivate relationships with business partners and team members to create a unique and healthy culture. Our bigger picture is to provide solutions that improve the lives of everyone around us. We know each component of our operation impacts the structure and culture of our organization. Additionally, we partner with doctors and other care providers with one vital goal in mind, ensuring patients receive optimal care and necessary medications.

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counting medications
18Sep

What Makes a Great Pharmacy Partner?

There are numerous factors that contribute to making a pharmacy an excellent partner. One of the most important factors is developing a diligent, compassionate, and competent staff. A staff with these qualities can offer consultations in medication and proper administration which work towards solutions with chronic health issues. These solutions can help to provide affordable alternatives to generic brands and other options available. Additionally, a great pharmacy offers both education and access regarding convenient vaccinations. These pharmacies will also provide assistance in understanding and choosing pill dispensers and bottles, with several options related to easy-to-open containers and special packaging. On top of all that, having the desire to improve the health of the population while decreasing costs with added values like providing access to various levels on a drug formulary is characteristic of a beneficial pharmacy.

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medication
18Sep

How to Make Your MedPass More Efficient

Medication administration time, which is commonly referred to as a med pass, at any long-term care facility can be a challenging time. No matter how seasoned the nurses and staff is, many moving pieces can complicate the situation including multiple medications per resident, illegible instructions, emergencies, new orders, and family interruptions. All of these scenarios can often drag out the process and, depending on the size of the facility, make medication administration almost a full-time job for staff.

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18Sep

Immunization Recommendations for Aging Adults

Immunizations are typically thought of as something we all get when we are children – but not so much as we continue to age. However, some childhood vaccines wear off with time, leaving adults and the elderly unprotected.

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