Pharmacy Quality Alliance

2024 MPH practicum program student Katherine Quigley collaborated with PQA's Performance Measurement and Research Team to learn about PQA’s various frameworks and initiatives. Her time here illuminated how PQA's efforts positively impact pharmacy services like MTM. Learn more.  https://lnkd.in/eiVDstMx

PQA is accepting poster abstracts for the 2025 PQA Annual Meeting Poster Session. The poster session allows authors to highlight their efforts in quality improvement and research and for attendees to engage in insightful dialogue about the healthcare quality landscape. https://lnkd.in/eHXGhcm9

PQA believes strongly in the importance and value of developing and growing the next generation of healthcare leaders. We are currently accepting applications for #APPE rotations, summer executive #internships and #MPH practicums through Friday, December 13.   https://lnkd.in/dAZBrr2

Join us this Thursday, November 21, from 1-2 pm ET for a PQA Quality Forum Webinar. Loren Kirk, PharmD, CAE, IOM, will welcome Nicholas Dorich and LoriAnn Collins RPh, MBA, CMTM, from PQS by Innovaccer to discuss Medicare 2025 Star Ratings update. Members can find the registration link in the Members Resources Library. https://lnkd.in/eU9eDhWE

Five for Friday! Richard Schmitz details the 2025 PQA Quality Shadowing Program. Self-nominations are accepted now through December 9. Plus, from our members' on interoperability with PQA board member John William Hill from NCPDP (National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, Inc.), impacts of pharmacy closures with the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and measuring what matters to patients from Johnson & Johnson. https://lnkd.in/edsb34ei

Last week, PQA members gathered at the 2024 PQA Leadership Summit to address PQA's recent and ongoing work to develop standard pharmacy quality measures. Learn more about the meeting and the panel's key takeaways! https://lnkd.in/eZG6gEZw

The deadline to submit applications for the 2025-26 PQA Executive Fellowship is this Friday, November 15! PQA fellows collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders at a national level to impact the quality of care patients receive. Learn more about the #fellowship and apply today! https://lnkd.in/eXRMtwxY

Quality professionals, rare disease leaders and individuals with lived experience gathered last week at PQA Convenes: Quality Medication Use in Rare Disease. Learn more about the event and top takeaways from our panels. https://lnkd.in/erYcuyNg

With the 2024 PQA Leadership Summit in the books, CEO Micah Cost is "grinding forward" and on to Denver to discuss new payment models for pharmacists at the ASCP annual meeting. Check out his session Saturday, November 9, with Jim Gartner and Brenden O'Hara RPh BCACP. #2024ASCP

It was wonderful to connect with our members and attendees at the 2024 PQA Leadership Summit. Thank you to our meeting sponsors, Outcomes®, PQS by Innovaccer, Centene Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, MedWatchers, Humana and PerformRx!