Lower Lights Health and AndHealth Achieve Pharmacy Accreditation With ACHC
26 Abril 2024 - 3:53PM
Business Wire
Lower Lights Health and AndHealth proudly announce they have
achieved accreditation through Accreditation Commission for Health
Care (ACHC) for Lower Lights Pharmacy’s specialty pharmacy
services.
Accreditation is a process through which healthcare
organizations demonstrate compliance with national standards.
Accreditation by ACHC reflects an organization’s dedication and
commitment to meeting standards that facilitate a higher level of
performance and patient care.
ACHC is a nonprofit organization that has stood as a symbol of
quality and excellence since 1986. ACHC is ISO 9001:2015 certified
and has CMS deeming authority for Home Health, Hospice and
DMEPOS.
Through a partnership with AndHealth, Lower Lights Health now
offers specialty pharmacy services in-house and patients can fill
their specialty prescriptions directly through Lower Lights Health
Pharmacy.
“Creating access to specialty medications is critical to the
wellbeing of our communities. We are honored to have received ACHC
accreditation, which is a great testament to the attention to
detail and care our patients can expect from our pharmacy team,”
said Tracy Cloud, CEO of Lower Lights Health. She added, “Providing
pharmacy services in-house ensures there are no gaps in care
between a patient’s provider and their pharmacist. Patients achieve
better health outcomes when they are surrounded by a team that
communicates and collaborates on their care.”
About Lower Lights Health
Lower Lights Health is a Christian based, Federally Qualified
Health Center and 501 (c) (3) non-profit providing the highest
quality health care to all – regardless of the ability to pay. We
connect all aspects of health and wellness to provide patents with
total care. Lower Lights Health serves over 15,000 patients from 7
sites in central Ohio. We welcome and serve all members of the
community with dignity and respect.
Lower Lights Health… We are Beyond Health Care.
To learn more, visit llchc.org.
About AndHealth
AndHealth helps Community Health Centers (CHCs) radically
improve access and outcomes for patients in specialty care and
specialty pharmacy, while becoming an even larger and more
clinically integrated part of our healthcare system. This
Whole-Person Community Care Model provides everything CHCs need to
deliver in-house specialty care and specialty pharmacy, built for
the unique needs of our medically underserved populations.
The model provides CHCs with more patients, more clinical
capabilities, alignment with health systems, and sustainable
reimbursement and funding that restores the integrity of the
patient’s medical home and their critical reimbursement model—both
having shifted away from CHCs through external specialty referrals
and contract pharmacies. In restoring this integrity, CHCs can tear
down barriers to care and stretch scarce federal resources to reach
more patients with comprehensive services that weren’t possible
before and that are desperately needed by patients.
Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, AndHealth is led by former
CoverMyMeds co-founder and CEO Matt Scantland and the team that
built Ohio’s first healthcare technology unicorn, who have
dedicated their lives to transformative innovation that improves
access for patients. AndHealth is supported by key investors
including the American Medical Association’s innovation subsidiary,
Francisco Partners, and the state of Ohio’s economic development
organization.
To learn more, visit AndHealth.com.
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Julia Phillips VP, Marketing + Enablement AndHealth
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