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Sep

2025

Standing Together: Third Annual Pharmacy Workforce Suicide Awareness Day

Author: James Keagy

WASHINGTON, DC (September 18, 2025) — The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) recognize September 20 as the third annual Pharmacy Workforce Suicide Awareness Day, launched in 2023 during Suicide Prevention Month. This day is dedicated to breaking stigma, raising awareness, and fostering conversations that can save lives.

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16

Sep

2025

HHS, CDC Announce First Pharmacist Appointment to ACIP: Hillary F. Blackburn Named Voting Member

Author: James Keagy

Washington, DC. – September 16, 2025 – Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the appointment of Hillary F. Blackburn, PharmD, MBA, of Franklin, Tennessee, as a voting member of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

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19

Aug

2025

Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners Releases Revised Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process (PPCP)

Author: James Keagy

Washington, D.C. – August 19, 2025 – The Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners (JCPP) today announced the release of the 2025 Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process (PPCP), an update to the 2014 PPCP that is intended to reflect pharmacists’ contemporary practice and evolving trends in the health care system.

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6

Aug

2025

Pharmacy Orgs Urge Court to Uphold Tennessee’s Right to Regulate PBMs Without regulation, PBMs have engaged in abusive practices, say pharmacy groups

Washington, DC. (Aug. 6, 2025) – The American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), and the Tennessee Pharmacists Association (TPA) yesterday filed a joint amicus brief in federal court in support of Tennessee’s law to regulate pharmacy benefit managers.

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Aug

2025

APhA deeply concerned with ACIP Secretariat undermining pharmacist representation

Author: James Keagy

Washington, DC, July 31, 2025 — The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) is deeply concerned with the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Secretariat’s decision to label iaison organizations as “special interest groups” and therefore, “biased” in decision making.

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