Evaluation of a Chronic Care Management Model for Improving Efficiency and Fiscal Sustainability.

Chronic care management is effective. Barriers to program durability include dependence on the provider-nurse duo to carry out labor-intensive services and the lack of a fiscally sustainable model. Between January and October 2022, an expanded chronic care management team-consisting of a provider, nurse, community health worker, and pharmacist-conducted a four-month intervention in an ambulatory setting.

Improved Patient Engagement and Cost Savings Through a Novel Medication Review Process.

Pharmacist-led interventions are pivotal in identifying and resolving potential adverse drug events (pADEs) while enhancing blood pressure control and medication adherence through educational and counseling interventions. This practice brief outlines the outcomes of the Blue Bag Initiative (BBI), which enhanced pharmacist-led comprehensive medication reviews (CMRs) across community pharmacies in Virginia under Center for Disease Control Cooperative Agreement NU58DP006535. BBI yielded a rate of 131.