ACT Pharmacy Collaborative 50 Stories from 50 States Challenge & Multimedia Library
ACCP supports clinical pharmacy in the community pharmacy setting. The Academia-CPESN Transformation (ACT) Pharmacy Collaborative is a learning and acting collaboration between colleges/schools of pharmacy and clinically integrated networks of community-based pharmacies that focuses on supporting the transformation of community-based pharmacy practice from a product-based care model to a community-based pharmacy care delivery model through uniting, mobilizing, and amplifying community pharmacy transformation efforts. ACCP staff and members participate within ACT and on the ACT Task Force. The 50 Stories from 50 States Challenge, a recent initiative out of the collaboration, was created to capitalize on the importance of storytelling in advocacy and learning. More than 60 stories from community pharmacies across 46 states plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico have been collected and are now housed in the 50 Stories from 50 States Multimedia Library. Story submissions include a written narrative and/or video describing the community pharmacy’s practice, a patient care story, and legislative/regulatory impacts. These stories capture examples of the positive impact of pharmacists in the community setting through the breadth of services provided to individuals and the community. These stories can be used as a teaching tool in pharmacy curricula and in legislative, regulatory, and community advocacy efforts to showcase the clinical, humanistic, and economic value of pharmacist-provided care in community pharmacies.
Dr. Melissa McGivney, in addition to being a professor and associate dean for community partnerships at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, is director of the ACT Pharmacy Collaborative. “The 50 Stories from 50 States Challenge is an opportunity to showcase the incredible patient care being provided in communities nationwide each day,” said McGivney. “It is also evidence to introduce students, legislators, payers, and our many health professional colleagues of the gaps in care pharmacists in the community are filling through their clinical and community-focused expertise,” adding, “We’re uniting to tell a story, to amplify what is occurring around the country so that all patients, in every community, can have access to a pharmacist providing medication-related care.” Although the challenge has ended, the ACT Pharmacy Collaborative is still accepting story submissions to build on the rich collection that already exists.
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