NSU Clinic Pharmacy

Staff Meeting Minutes

July 14, 2020
Present:
Dr. Alvarez (facilitator)
Dr. Pham
Dr. Lafferty
Dr. Aleu
Dr. Rivera
Dr. Pino
Dr. Zwachte
Dr. Milfort
Ms. Demore
Student Intern: Yagnish Soni

Call to Order: 11:02 AM

Discussion Action items

NSU Pharmacy
Updates
 NSU  Forms: Must be discussed during  No action item
Pharmacy meetings and approved before being
Updates implemented

 Deliveries  Currently working on Delivery policy  Residents request Delivery

policy from Dr. Davis then
forward to Dr. Alvarez

 Texting  Actively being worked on to ensure  No action item

HIPAA compliance

 EQuipp  Dr. Pino reviewed EQuipp portal and  Vaccinations are pending
cases are up to date  Mid – July EQuipp report

 Diabetes clinic  Protocol already presented to clinic  Discussion needed (TBD)

Endocrinologist

 Flu vaccines  Alvarez added an extra 10% to the order  Marie: Review which
and Flu clinics vaccinations has been paid for
via Aetna
 Anticipate vaccination arrival
 mid-August to late August
 Pharmacy  Technician #3 is potentially being  No action item
budget considered
approved

ICUBAcares  Rally eligibility: Call volume low  No action item

updates  HCC calls: Calls are productive; high  No action item
cost pharmacy calls recommendations
are being made to Medical Director
 E-mail correspondence: Do not add
any one to email threads, do not add  No action item
anyone’s information with PHI, do not
add anyone that is not a part of the
pharmacy staff
 Pharmacogenomics: No updates
 Formulary changes 7/1/20  No action item
o 36 cases completed  No action item
o Dr. Aleu: Optum is approving one
time refill
o Dr. Rivera: Synthroid not
included and must be switched to
generic
 Reports (financial and projects)  Marie: Reports due 10th of
o Still not clear how many cases every month
have been done per reports.
 Asthma Study  Dr. Rivera states one last call
o Dr. Aleu: an intern has called the to do
Asthma patients but not sure how  Provide patients with $20 gift
much money will be sent card of choice
 OptumRX electronic processing  No action item
problems
 Paying for COVID testing in  No action item
dispensing pharmacies
o They will not pay for nasal swab
testing to see if patients are ready
to return to work, they will only
pay for patients with active
symptoms

Integrative  SP grants:
Pharmacy Clinic o Nutrition & Wellness course in  No action item
Update the Fall  No action item
o SP provided $6, 500 for course
development, scholarships, and
guest speakers
 Clinic:
 How can we increase patient
o There have been many patient
attendance?
cancellations recently yet my
regular patients are following up
 No action item
o Currently looking at a Beer’s list
 for herbals to get into a journal as
well as language around
supplement therapy

TOC center  The next 3 months is a trial: at the end  We need cases given and cases
Update of September, we will decide on the completed
value of the service to discuss funding
o Make initial call  follow-up call
within 10 days  additional
follow-up call in 20 days

New Business  Work schedules  Dr. Alvarez check email for

 Dress code: Dress professional (no works schedules sent from Dr.
jeans, no flip-flops, no polo shirts, no Pino
ties for now)  No action item
 Travel: the $1,250 put on hold as  No action item
professional traveling is paused
 Return to campus:  No action item
o Staff expected to return to
campus by July 27th
o Administrators are required to be
on campus at least 3 days a week
o Faculty are required to be on
campus at least twice a week
 Robot integration: Everything resolved  No action item
 Centor vials update (logo for top):  Marie check with printing
Executed services for high resolution
o We will be receiving contracted NSU clinic pharmacy logo
prices for the vial
 Hazardous Drugs policy: developed by  No action item
Dr. Pino for the 2020 Policy and
Procedure manual
 VA access clinic update: as of July 1st,  Marie send bill for July 7th
no funding for access clinic yet funding service
will be provided via own insurance
plans
 Actual or potential exposure to  No action item
COVID-19: Information already
emailed out by Dr. Alvarez
 PPEs: Information already emailed out  Ensure patients and pharmacy
by Dr. Alvarez staff are wearing mask
appropriately
 Trainings: process starting now and
must be completed by end of August –  Marie send list of those
mid-September required to complete training

 NCPDP credentialing documents  Residents develop policies for:

needed: every year we must be re- Federal Anti-kickback,
credentialed with different insurance Compounding standard
companies operating procedure,
compounding user and
customary and price,
Immunizations
  Marie upload all completed
APhA immunization
certificates

 CSOS update  No action item

 C2 cabinet keys update: Keys ordered  Dr. Alvarez write letter to the
and signed off DEA to take Mr. Nass off as
the coordinator

 Residents: New residents welcome  No action item

 NSU – Dept. of Pharmacy services  No action item
newsletter: (Q2m alternating)
 Announcements: Dr. Aleu states there  Someone go across the street
is no emergency cash/change in the to bank for change
register

Meeting adjournment: 12:12PM

Meeting minutes resived 08/11/2020 11:13AM

- Added Student Intern attendee
- Corrected last name spelling to Mr. Nass