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Transitions Magazine

Transitions is published bi-monthly for members of the APhA New Practitioner Network. The online newsletter contains information focused on life inside and outside pharmacy practice, providing guidance on various areas of professional, personal, and practice development. Each issue includes in-depth articles on such topics as personal financial management, innovative practice sites, career profiles, career development tools, residency and postgraduate programs, and more.

Direct-to-consumer must include patients’ personal pharmacist Direct-to-consumer must include patients’ personal pharmacist

Direct-to-consumer must include patients’ personal pharmacist

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APhA CEO Michael Hogue makes the case for why direct-to-consumer drug programs must include pharmacists’ care — and why leaving them out would be a costly mistake.

APhA remains committed to improving pharmacy workplace APhA remains committed to improving pharmacy workplace

APhA remains committed to improving pharmacy workplace

In this blog, APhA CEO Michael Hogue shares how the Association is doubling down on its commitment to pharmacy workforce well-being and workplace...
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Supporting the vital role of the U.S. Public Health Service Supporting the vital role of the U.S. Public Health Service

Supporting the vital role of the U.S. Public Health Service

For over 130 years, health care professionals have been called upon as patriots caring for our nation’s wounded military. First purposed by...
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Recent pharmacy closures and ECAPS legislation Recent pharmacy closures and ECAPS legislation

Recent pharmacy closures and ECAPS legislation

Like so many of you, we’ve been continuing to follow reports in the media about pharmacy closures. It seems like each of those stories...
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Remembering the day that changed our world Remembering the day that changed our world

Remembering the day that changed our world

I remember September 11th, 2001, as if it were yesterday. I was working as a relief pharmacist in Morgan City, Alabama, when my wife called to...
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Pharmacists: We must accelerate billing for services Pharmacists: We must accelerate billing for services

Pharmacists: We must accelerate billing for services

For all my 32 years in the profession, pharmacists have been asking for the right to bill third-party payers, namely major medical insurance...
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Retail theft is jeopardizing access to pharmacists Retail theft is jeopardizing access to pharmacists

Retail theft is jeopardizing access to pharmacists

All around us, the pharmacy landscape is changing rapidly. Rite-Aid is working through bankruptcy. Walgreens just announced closure of up to 25%...
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Let’s agree to turn down the temperature, and turn up the heat

Early in my career, when I was practicing in Alabama there was a bill before the state legislature related to pharmacy technicians. The state pharmacy association strongly supported the bill, yet one of the big hospitals in the state opposed the bill. I can distinctly remember visiting a legislator’s office to ask for support for the bill and the senator said, “Michael, why do you...

What’s happened in a year

One year ago, I had the honor of becoming APhA’s 15th CEO and Executive Vice President. It’s been a tremendous year with challenges I did not anticipate and joys I never could have predicted.

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