WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Center for Pharmacy Practice Accreditation (CPPA) recently accredited Blount Specialty Pharmacy, a provider of specialized medicines for hematology and oncology, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, Crohn’s Disease, immunology, rheumatoid arthritis, and dermatology and inflammatory diseases.
Specialty medications are often expensive, require special handling procedures, and involve complex treatment regimens that require ongoing clinical monitoring and patient education. CPPA specialty accreditation recognizes exemplary pharmacy practices in this area, fostering medication safety and effectiveness, ensuring continuous quality improvement, and facilitating desired patient health outcomes.
“The gold standard for specialty pharmacies is ensuring that patients achieve positive, cost-effective outcomes. CPPA’s accreditation of Blount Specialty Pharmacy provides an important recognition that they provide the patient care pharmacy services that support these goals,” said CPPA Executive Director Lynnae Mahaney, BSPharm, MBA, FASHP.
Blount Specialty Pharmacy is licensed to provide care for patients in Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, and North Carolina assisting them in managing their complex medication therapies. Blount is co-owned by Aaron Clark and Phil LaFoy.
“The CPPA specialty pharmacy practice accreditation process, which is transparent and consultative, ensures and recognizes that our patient care services are of the highest quality and continually improving,” said Blount Specialty Pharmacy President Phil LaFoy. “We appreciate CPPA’s focus on patient care from a pharmacy perspective and their thorough understanding of the day-to-day operations within the pharmacy industry. We are confident that CPPA accreditation will further our proud traditions of unmatched, high-quality patient care.”
For more information about the CPPA accreditation process, including standards, a self-assessment tool, and application materials, visit www.pharmacypracticeaccredit.org.
About CPPA
The Center for Pharmacy Practice Accreditation (CPPA) is a nonprofit organization established in 2012 through a partnership of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) to recognize pharmacy practices for providing patient care services that improve health outcomes and contribute to lower health care costs. The CPPA mission, unique among accreditors, is to raise the level of pharmacy-delivered patient care services through accreditation and, thus, serve the public health. These three organizations saw a need to establish standards to meet the public’s need for specific, predictable, and measurable pharmacist clinical services across the medication use continuum. Center for Pharmacy Practice Accreditation — www.Pharmacypracticeaccredit.org — 608-444-7847
About Blount Specialty Pharmacy
Blount Discount Pharmacy began as Greenbelt Village Discount Pharmacy in July of 1982 and changed the name to Blount Discount Pharmacy in 1989. Since that time Blount Discount Pharmacy has introduced several pharmacy practice innovations in Blount County TN including our convenient Drive-Thru windows, free delivery service, Medicine-On-Time, and “The Sweet Spot” diabetes management program. Blount Specialty Pharmacy’s mission is to provide pharmaceutical care for patients requiring treatment with specialized pharmaceuticals for specific disease states. Blount is dedicated to providing responsive, timely customer service. They have a very proud tradition of unmatched patient care and unsurpassed service.