Patient Care

PCHS faculty are practicing pharmacy in interprofessional settings across the continuum of care. From acute to chronic care, faculty are working to optimize medication use for individual patient care.

Ambulatory Care

Bethesda Family Medicine Clinic

Ann Philbrick

Site: Bethesda Family Medicine Clinic is located just outside downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. It is affiliated with MHealth Fairview and serves as a teaching site for the University of Minnesota Woodwinds Family Medicine Residency Program. As St. Paul is a designated resettlement city, the clinic serves a large refugee population, mainly from Southeast Asia and Eastern Africa.

Bethesda Clinic has been a Health Care Home since 2011, and works in an interprofessional capacity, with physicians, pharmacists, psychologists and a psychologist all working together to provide ultimate patient care.

Pharmacy Role: The clinical pharmacists serve a variety of roles at Bethesda Clinic including: Comprehensive Medication Reviews (CMR), medication reconciliation, transitions of care, patient education, and consultations from other healthcare providers. The clinical pharmacists have a general collaborative practice agreement that allows them to stop, start, or change medications on behalf of the physician.

U of MN Physicians Broadway Family Medicine Clinic

Jody Lounsbery and Jean Moon

Site: University of Minnesota Physicians Broadway Family Medicine Clinic is committed to setting the standard for excellence in health care delivery for you and your family. We see newborns, children, teenagers, adults, seniors, and people living in nursing homes. Our clinic offers services in family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, social services, patient education, and referrals to specialty care. We are a Certified Health Care Home and offer enhanced care coordination services.

Broadway is also a University of Minnesota family medicine teaching clinic. The clinic is staffed by a team of University of Minnesota physicians, pharmacists, psychologists, social workers, care coordinators and nurse practitioners (all with their respective residents, interns, and students).

Broadway is proud of offering care to the surrounding community of North Minneapolis. The patient population is rich with diversity and welcoming to all patients, regardless of race, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

Pharmacy Role: Clinical pharmacy services at Broadway works to improve the care of chronic disease within its patient population by offering in-clinic comprehensive medication management service to our patients, training students and resident providers to promote the safe and effective use of medications, and help patients achieve their medication therapy goals through interprofessional team care.

Daily tasks within clinic include individual patient visits, co-visits with patients and another provider, drug information consultations, and participation interprofessional care team meetings. The pharmacy team also works to provide updated pharmacotherapy information and education for providers and staff.

Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital

Anne Schullo-Feulner

Site: Park Nicollet Health Services is an integrated care system serving ~400,000 patients through a 426 bed, community hospital (Methodist Hospital) and 81 clinics. Since being named a Pioneer Accountable Care Organization with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, We have been involved in two high-level system wide committees (i.e. Population Health Council and Transitions Guidance Group) that have allowed me to influence resource utilization and the focus of quality improvement efforts system-wide.

Pharmacy Role: We are currently involved in pharmacist-driven transitions in care work that allows inpatient pharmacists to develop discharge medication lists with and for patients, and then connect those patients to outpatient MTM pharmacists for follow-up. To create this consult and handoff, standard work for physicians, nurses, hospital unit coordinators and pharmacists underwent change and revision. For the pilot a total of 121 patients were seen by the inpatient pharmacists and 69 patients had a follow up visit with an outpatient pharmacist. Inpatient pharmacists found a total of 552 drug therapy problems requiring intervention; of these 24% were referred to the MTM pharmacists for resolution post-discharge.

Smiley’s Family Medicine Clinic

Chrystian Pereira

Site: Smiley’s Family Medicine Clinic is a Family Medicine teaching clinic located in south Minneapolis. Smiley’s Clinic is a certified health care home and offers enhanced care coordination services to all of its patients. The clinic is staffed by a team of University of Minnesota faculty physicians, medical residents, psychologists and nurse practitioners. The team at Smiley’s Family Medicine Clinic provides a full range of services for the entire family. The specialty of family medicine treats people of all ages, from newborns to seniors. Family medicine also includes care of patients through pregnancy and childbirth and the treatment of women’s health issues.

Smiley’s has a proud history of providing care to the South Minneapolis. The patient population is rich with diversity and welcoming to all patients, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation.

Pharmacy Role: Clinical pharmacy services at Smiley’s Clinic works to improve the care of chronic disease within its patient population. We offer in-clinic comprehensive medication management service to our patients. The pharmacy team works to optimize drug therapy care to patients by working as a member of the interprofessional team. Daily tasks within clinic include individual patient visits, co-visits with patients and another provider, drug information consultations, and participation interprofessional care team meetings.

The pharmacy team also works to educate Family Medicine residents along with others in the Smiley’s faculty and clinical staff on pharmacotherapy topics.

The University of Minnesota Nurse Practitioner's Clinic

Kylee Funk

Site: The University of Minnesota Nurse Practitioners Clinic is a nurse managed health care clinic supported by the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. Through this clinic, nurse practitioners provide primary care services. Patients are provided comprehensive primary care at our site.

Pharmacy Role: Pharmacists provide comprehensive medication management. Pharmacists see patients independently and also through co-visits with nurse practitioners.

The University of Minnesota Medical Center (UMMC)

Diana R. Langworthy

Site: The University of Minnesota Medical Center (UMMC) East Bank Campus is a 743-bed medical and surgical academic health center and is affiliated with the M Health Fairview Healthcare System. UMMC is located in downtown Minneapolis in the heart of the University of Minnesota campus.

UMMC is a Level II Trauma Center and celebrates a rich history of Transplant Medicine, advances in oncologic care, and caring for some of the most complex medically ill patients in the state of Minnesota and beyond.

Pharmacy Role: Inpatient pharmacists at UMMC are involved in interdisciplinary patient care and conduct a variety of services including anticoagulation management, pharmacokinetic consultations, and renal dosage adjustments among many others.

The typical day in the life of an inpatient pharmacist at UMMC involves thorough clinical review of patients, attending medical rounds to provide proactive pharmacotherapy recommendations and guidance, preparing medical notes in the electronic medical records in response to consultations from the medical team, and providing an environment rich for learning for our pharmacy and other healthcare professions learners.

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