Join forces with an emerging, dynamic group of pharmacists delivering primary care throughout Pennsylvania!

The PPA Ambulatory Care Collaborative (ACC) is a partnership with the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association.

Click here to view testimonials from our ACC members!

Discussion Forum

ACC has a special Group page and discussion group available by clicking here.  You must be an ACC member AND logged in to access, which you can do by clicking here. This page will house resources and other materials - coming soon!

Our Vision:

Development of sustainable practice models where pharmacists and physicians collaborate in primary care throughout Pennsylvania

Our Mission:

ACC is a group of pharmacists in primary care throughout PA that collaborates to provide networking, innovation, support, mentorship, a scholarly home for collaboration to publish our work, and a consolidated voice for advocacy. We share a standardized philosophy of practice and patient experience, and continually strive to identify meaningful outcome measures, both qualitative and quantitative, in a variety of health system models.

We Aim to:

• Define core pharmacist role regardless of practice setting, create a united voice, identify pharmacy champions/partners.
• Forge new relationships with stakeholders in primary care with the goal of enabling innovative initiatives in the ambulatory pharmacy space.
• Create a directory of primary care pharmacists in PA.
• Provide an online forum to share ideas and ask questions.
• Outline practical solutions to expand services in different settings.
• Get buy-in from payers through a new connection between pharmacists in the practices to payors.
• Establish standardized philosophy and process of care.
• Share and collaborate on templates and other resources.
• Advocate for technician certification and work in primary care.
• Achieve provider status in health systems, municipalities, and payers.
• Create a strategic plan and workflow to support expansion.
• Be an active leader in a professional organization providing input and service to the practice of pharmacy!

Join Us Today!

ACC Membership is open to all Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association (PPA) members who are involved in or interested in primary care. You may work in ambulatory care, community pharmacy, a clinic, a health system, or just about anywhere, as long as you feel a connection to primary care delivery, you are invited to join us.

We offer opportunities to:

- Collaborate, network and learn with like-minded, forward thinking pharmacists
- Develop, showcase and share innovative practice models
- Advocate, lead, and support emerging concepts in professional practice
- Innovate, promote, and deliver meaningful patient care

We accomplish this through:

• Conference calls and discussion forums (also recorded and shared)
• At least two annual in person meetings of programs and discussions in conjunction with PPA
• Quarterly best practices and discussion webinar forums
• Resource sharing
• Providing you with an audience and opportunity in which to present or publish
  
  

How do I join?

If you are already a PPA member, simply send an email to PPA at ppa@papharmacists.com stating you wish to be part of the ACC group.

Not a PPA member – give PPA a chance – Please consider joining our efforts by becoming a PPA member!  Once you join PPA we encourage you to email us and request being part of ACC.

ACC Advisory Board

View Advisory Board members, click here.

PPA Ambulatory Care Collaborative - Work Groups

1. Advocacy and Reimbursement (Leads- Hilary Weismantel, Mike Korczynski, and Maria Osborne): This workgroup will solicit and gather materials (testimonials) that advocate and promote for the growth and development of ambulatory clinical pharmacy services.  This group will also support efforts to promote provider status recognition and reimbursement for clinical services.  
    
   Testimonials will be gathered from providers, nurses, patients. The goal is to have them focused on ambulatory clinical pharmacy practices and broaden to other team members to highlight collaboration and relationships. These will be used to educate legislators and other constituents to the notion of ambulatory care pharmacy practice. 
    
   The group will identify opportunities and strategies for reimbursement of ambulatory clinical pharmacy services.  This workgroup will share past and current experiences with PPA Ambulatory Care Collaborative membership to facilitate reimbursement opportunities in the ambulatory care setting. The group will gather examples and support for provider status recognition as an essential mechanism for reimbursement to continue to justify ambulatory clinical pharmacy services and enhance access to care.
   
   
2. Data Collection (Leads - Mike Korczynski and Darren Mensch): The data collection workgroup will identify opportunities to collect data sets from PPA Ambulatory Care Collaborative members to describe and publish reports on the value (clinical, quality, and economic) of ambulatory clinical pharmacy services.  The workgroup will aim to focus on a specific topic annually and partner with ambulatory pharmacy residency programs to assist with data analysis, presentation, and publication.
   
   
3. Membership and Communication (Leads - Trisha Patel & Darren Mensch): The membership workgroup will actively engage in recruiting PPA/ PPA Ambulatory Care Collaborative members.  The membership group will also gather information from PPA Ambulatory Care Collaborative members to identify their practice site locations and a description of ambulatory clinical pharmacy services provided.  ALL PPA Ambulatory Care Collaborative members in clinical practice should complete a membership profile.  Membership profile information will be utilized to create a membership map/dashboard.  The membership group will also aim to publish a quarterly newsletter to update members on PPA Ambulatory Care Collaborative pertinent topics and developments.  Lastly this group will utilize social media platform to engage members and promote programming.
   
   
4. Programming (Lead - Rachael Cardinal): The programming workgroup will solicit leaders and content experts in topical areas of interest to PPA Ambulatory Care Collaborative members.  Topics should focus on content that is valuable to PPA Ambulatory Care Collaborative members and aids in growth and development of ambulatory clinical pharmacy services.

If you are interested in joining one of these work groups, please complete this survey, click here.

 ACC Resources