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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.

Call to action: Pharmacists needed for cancer care Call to action: Pharmacists needed for cancer care

Call to action: Pharmacists needed for cancer care

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In this blog, APhA CEO Michael Hogue urges pharmacists to pursue oncology specialization as cancer therapies become increasingly complex. He emphasizes that the next decade in oncology will be shaped not only by new therapies, but by the pharmacists who help patients make the most of them.

Congress must act now to pass ECAPS Congress must act now to pass ECAPS

Congress must act now to pass ECAPS

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APhA CEO Michael Hogue urges Congress to pass the ECAPS Act to prevent the collapse of community health access — warning that continued inaction will leave vulnerable patients without essential pharmacy care.

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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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

All around us, the pharmacy landscape is changing rapidly. Rite-Aid is working through bankruptcy. Walgreens just announced closure of up to 25% of its stores. Winn-Dixie pharmacies are gone. The National Community Pharmacists Association indicates in verbal communications that one independent pharmacy and three community pharmacies are closing every single day in 2024. Much has been said and...

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...
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