The People
Our staff include Registered Pharmacists, Doctors of Pharmacy, Consultant Pharmacists, Licensed Nurses and Administrative specialists with specific experience in the long term care field.
Our Pharmacy Consulting Division operates with a focus on clinical, regulatory, and compliance areas as well as dealing with cost containment issues.
The pharmacy staff works in this area providing the formulary linkage between the facility and the vendor pharmacy and providing the best service in Long Term Care.
The Services
Shelly's Medication Services is committed to providing low cost, high quality medication services to long term care facilities in Philadelphia and the surrounding Counties.
Benefits of our program include:
AUTOMATIC REORDERING
We offer an individualized automatic reordering system which allows nurses to spend more time with their residents rather than on tedious duty of re-ordering medications.
This system also provides a mechanism for drug accountability. The drug delivery system is serviced in house by our professional staff and high standards of quality are always maintained.
24/7 DELIVERY
Shelly's Medication Services offers 24 hour emergency delivery of all medications, seven days a week 365 days a year.
MONTHLY ORDER RECORDS AND REPORTS
Monthly physician order sheets, medication records, treatment sheet and behavior monitoring forms are provided to the client facility for adherence to state/federal regulations and for quality assurance and clinical analysis purposes.
Many different customized reports are available for analyzing cost effectiveness of prescribing habits and pharmacy programs.
EMARS (ELECTRONIC CHART DOCUMENTATION)
IMPROVE PATIENT SAFETY AND QUALITY OF CARE - through electronic orders, electronic eMARs and electronic documentation.
§ Prevent adverse drug events (ADEs)
§ Decrease hospitalizations
§ Information for proactive Performance Improvement and Risk Management efforts.
§ Improve legibility
MANAGE RISK - Be prepared for State Surveys, Joint Commission Guidelines and lower the liability and malpractice insurance premiums.
§ Information technology audits
§ Disaster Recovery planning
§ Withstand MDS compliance audits
FORMULARY SYSTEM
Our quality assurance services extend to include a formulary system for those facilities whose needs require a more controlled medication environment. This system has many advantages. The reduction of medication errors, continuity of care issues, and cost reduction analysis are a few of the benefits of the formulary system.
BILLING & RETURN SYSTEM
Other cost reduction advantages to the Shelly's Long Term Care system include a returned drug credit policy and detailed monthly billing statements. Online third party billing is also performed by our system.
THE TECHNOLOGY
Shelly's Medication Services is equipped with state of the art technology in our facility. The Computer software is long term care dedicated and allows our system to meet the challenges at hand.
AUTOMATED PREPACKAGING
Our in house automated prepackaging system allows for reduction in costs for the client as well as insuring high standards of quality.
OTHER BENEFITS
Our technology also has many other benefits. Drug interaction, adverse drug reactions, and computer linked allergy alerts are updated regularly.
Our facility also has multiple in house Laminar flow hoods for compliance in all USP 797 standards for intravenous preparations as well as chemotherapy.
