{"id":254890,"date":"2024-08-15T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=254890"},"modified":"2024-08-15T15:11:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T15:11:06","slug":"automated-pharmacy-means-more-veterans-get-prescriptions-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=254890","title":{"rendered":"Automated pharmacy means more Veterans get prescriptions faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, VA\u2019s Southwest Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbm.va.gov\/PBM\/CMOP\/VA_Mail_Order_Pharmacy.asp\">(SW CMOP),<\/a> located in Tucson, Arizona, mailed more prescriptions than ever before to Veterans living everywhere from New Mexico to Alaska and all the way to Guam.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Mena-Ross_r1-2.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pharmacy Technician Supervisor Lorenzo Mena (left), VA Secretary Denis McDonough and Pharmacy Technician Tyree Ross<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cLast year, we reached a high of 23,204,802 prescriptions mailed to Veterans,\u201d said Director Michael T. Sutherland, Pharm.D. \u201cIt looks like we will hit 23.8 million this year. Of course, this accomplishment is only possible because of the hard work of our outstanding employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pictured above, Michael T. Sutherland, director of VA\u2019s Southwest Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy, shows VA Secretary Denis McDonough how the facility fills and mails about 90,000 prescriptions a day.<\/p>\n<p>Seven Tucson MOP employees were recognized for their dedication by VA Secretary Denis McDonough during his recent visit: Lorrena Estillore, Aida Diallo, Jacinda San Nicolas, Dan Duval, Tyree Ross, Samuel Swoopes and Sonya Vidal.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mail 90,000 prescriptions every day<\/h2>\n<p>VA\u2019s SW CMOP is one of seven highly automated, large-volume mail service pharmacy operations that prepare, fill and mail almost 84% of all VA prescriptions dispensed to Veterans throughout the United States. The Tucson facility mails approximately 56,000 packages each workday with a turn-around time of about two days.<\/p>\n<p>The sophisticated automated dispensing systems allow production to be accomplished quickly with exceptional accuracy and at a lower cost than performing the same dispensing tasks at local VA pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of CMOP dispensing program support, pharmacists at local VA facilities can spend more time counseling patients instead of being distracted by physical product dispensing tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2009, VA\u2019s highly automated\u00a0CMOPs have been rated \u201camong the best\u201d mail-order pharmacies in customer satisfaction according to the J.D. Power U.S. Pharmacy Study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, VA\u2019s Southwest Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (SW CMOP), located in Tucson, Arizona, mailed more prescriptions than ever before to Veterans living everywhere from New Mexico to Alaska and all the way to Guam. Pharmacy Technician Supervisor Lorenzo Mena (left), VA Secretary Denis McDonough and Pharmacy Technician Tyree Ross \u201cLast year, we reached a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":254892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,583],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-pharmacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254896,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254890\/revisions\/254896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/254892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}