When a symptom starts at nine at night, nobody should be driving around looking for a pharmacy.
Fairview provides fast turnaround on symptom medications, delivery to the home, a written medication review at admission, and a pharmacist your nurses can actually reach. Independent, local, and in Hattiesburg since 1978.
5 star rated, medication adherence, 4 years running93rd percentile nationallyNABP accreditedPharmacist owned since 1978
The only thing that matters at the wrong hour
The distance between a symptom and a medication is the whole job.
Pain, breathlessness, agitation, nausea, and secretions do not wait for business hours, and a family in the last weeks of someone’s life should not be organizing a pharmacy run.
Tell us what your after hours access needs to look like and we will tell you honestly what we can commit to. We would rather define a real arrangement than promise round the clock and miss it once, because once is all it takes with a hospice.
Medication in the home before it is needed
The kit is there so the crisis is not also a logistics problem.
A comfort kit is a small supply of medications dispensed to the patient in advance, on the attending physician’s anticipatory orders, and kept in the home so a symptom can be treated the hour it appears rather than after a trip to a pharmacy in the middle of a crisis.
Contents are built from the attending physician’s orders and the patient’s anticipated needs, not from a template. What a patient with air hunger needs is not what a patient with agitation needs.
The requirement behind the requirement
Your nurses reach a pharmacist, not a queue.
Hospices are required to ensure a licensed pharmacist is available to advise staff on medication issues. Most arrangements satisfy that on paper through a distant call center where the person answering has never seen the patient.
We are a phone call. The pharmacist who answers knows the patients on our packaging, knows what was dispensed last week, and can tell you whether what you are seeing is the disease or the drug.
Ask us how the arrangement is structured. It is a contract, and it should be.
The most valuable thing a pharmacist does in hospice and the least often done in time
Nobody at the end of life should be taking eleven medications for problems that are no longer the problem.
At hospice admission, the medication list usually still contains the statin, the bisphosphonate, the tight glycemic control, and three things aimed at preventing something ten years out.
Every one of those is now a swallowing burden, a side effect, and a cost, with nothing left to gain.
We provide a full reconciliation at admission, in writing, with a specific list of what could reasonably come off and why. Your medical director decides. We do the work of assembling the case.
Reducing pill burden is one of the most immediately felt improvements available in hospice care, and it almost never happens fast enough.
To the home, on every scheduled day.
Free local delivery. The family does not run errands. Ask us about our current service area and we will tell you plainly where we can and cannot reach.
Start with a conversation about after hours.
That is the piece that decides whether a pharmacy relationship works for a hospice, and it is the piece most conversations save for last. Let us start there.
Fifteen minutes with Dr. Mike, and we will tell you what we can commit to before you tell us anything about volume.
Request an intro call.
Fifteen minutes with Dr. Mike. He will walk through how the partnership works, what we can document for your quality measures, and how the five patient start works.
Typical response: Within 1 business day
Common questions
What hospice teams ask us.
How fast can you turn around a new symptom medication?
Tell us the situation and we will tell you honestly. Speed is the whole product here and we will not oversell it.
Do you deliver to the patient's home?
Yes, free local delivery on every scheduled day.
Do you do compounding?
Ask us about your specific needs and we will tell you what we can and cannot do in house.
How is the pharmacist availability arrangement structured?
As a written contract. Ask us and we will walk you through it.
Do you provide a medication review at admission?
Yes, including a written deprescribing assessment for your medical director.
Can you work alongside our existing hospice PBM?
Tell us how your benefit is structured and we will tell you where we fit.
Local, independent, and twenty minutes from most of your patients.
Pharmacist owned in Hattiesburg since 1978.