Pharmacy Management Consulting Services

One lesson we’ve learned is that staffing shortages are often a symptom of other operational challenges.

That’s why our management team, Advocate Rx® works with its sister company, Pharmacy Healthcare Solutions®, a health care consulting business unit of AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation, to provide a complete pharmacy management solution—including a comprehensive assessment of your operations, strategic business planning, and any resulting staffing and/or pharmacy leadership fulfillment. Specifically, we can help you evaluate:

      Pharmacy Insourcing

      Advocate Rx Solutions® assists health care organizations that want to move from outsourced management of their inpatient pharmacy to a self-reliant model. We’ll help you create a roadmap including the potential impact of such a change in direction, a transition plan and timeline, asset and inventory ownership assessment, staffing requirements, and wholesaler, GPO or other supply chain model set up. And, we can either recruit new staff or assume employee management and payroll for you.

      Pharmacy Outsourcing

      Other times, health systems are exploring the opposite scenario—moving from an in-house operated pharmacy to an outsourced model. We provide short or long-term pharmacy management with on-site leadership and the comfort of corporate accountability and transparency.

      Employer or Hospital-based Retail Pharmacy Development

      There are health systems across the country who have taken a leadership position to leverage their incredible brand and organic revenue potential of a comprehensive retail pharmacy strategy. Comprising multiple tactics, Advocate Rx can help you determine if “Enterprise Pharmacy Strategy” is right for your health system, what model would work best and how to execute it for the benefit of your community relationships, patient continuity, employee satisfaction and convenience, and the bottom line.

      TrakRx® Medication Management Solution

      With this unique consulting solution that requires little or no capital investment on the part of the client, we assist your inpatient pharmacy with unit-dose packaging and barcode labeling to support barcode medication administration. We provide the leadership and personnel to operate within the pharmacy, the AmerisourceBergen technology to achieve barcode packaging and labeling needs, and the necessary consumables.