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VA
Consolidated
Mail-out Pharmacy Enhanced
Nicholson: A Solid Example of Improved Patient
Care
WASHINGTON -- With mail-out pharmaceuticals for
veterans already a $3 billion annual operation
for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the
department made a major expansion in its future
capability with the dedication June 11 of a new
building and improved production system for the
Dallas VA Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy.
“VA’s mail-out pharmacies provide
convenient, world-class service to veterans through
state-of-the art processing of prescriptions for
our patients,” said Secretary of Veterans
Affairs Jim Nicholson. “These pharmacies
are another solid example of VA leading the health
care industry toward improved patient care.”
VA opened its first
mail-out pharmacy in 1994. The seven existing
mail-out pharmacies have become valuable partners
in VA’s total health care
program for veterans.
With an annual budget of $3 billion, these pharmacies
dispense 75 percent of all VA prescriptions. Consolidated
Mail Outpatient Pharmacies will handle nearly 100
million prescriptions this year, a quadrupling
of service compared to the 25 million prescriptions
dispensed 10 years ago. Most pharmaceuticals are
mailed within 48 hours of the mail-out pharmacy
receiving the prescription.
VA mail-out pharmacies begin processing pharmaceuticals
after downloading electronic prescriptions from
VA health care providers. Medicines are mailed
directly to patients.
VA’s seven consolidated
mail-out pharmacies are in Boston; Charleston,
S.C.; Chicago; Dallas; Leavenworth, Kan.; Nashville,
Tenn., and Tucson, Ariz.
SOURCE:
US Department of Veterans Affair
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