Barriers to medication access often prevent patients with diabetes, asthma and other common chronic conditions from adhering to their therapy regimens. The result: patient outcomes suffer, and health systems struggle to achieve their population health goals.

For Southern Ohio Medical Center, a 248-bed hospital in Portsmouth, integrated pharmacy services are playing a key role in tackling these barriers and improving clinical results. How are they doing it?

In this webinar, Valerie DeCamp, DNP, RN, the hospital's chief quality officer, and Sarah Porter, DO, senior medical director of family medicine, will discuss why SOMC established chronic disease management pharmacy services, along with how the services are accelerating patient outcomes and its population health vision.

Drs. DeCamp and Porter will then be joined by Brandon Newman, PharmD, Trellis Rx’s vice president of clinical affairs, for a panel discussion about how other hospitals and health systems can successfully deploy similar services to benefit their patients and further their strategic priorities.

Attendees will learn: