The Leadership Coordinating Council (LCC) is comprised of nearly 150 professionals from national health care organizations and key stakeholders who provide support to the HRSA Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative (PSPC) and its teams of frontline caregivers. The PSPC is a breakthrough effort to improve the quality of health care across America by integrating evidence-based clinical pharmacy services into the care and management of high-risk, high-cost, complex patients. Now in its second year (PSPC 2.0), the Collaborative is building upon the lessons learned and successes of the first year and expanding the work to a greater national scale.
The LCC is committed to supporting and facilitating the goals of the Collaborative to increase patient safety and improve health outcomes through the integration of clinical pharmacy services into a primary health home. In addition to providing resources and support to teams, many of the LCC members actively serve as unofficial ambassadors, spreading news about the PSPC, encouraging additional organizations to become involved, and tapping into and amplifying the knowledge, practices, leaders and methods generated as a result of the work.
Backed by the leadership and support of the LCC, 110 community-based teams of health care providers are driving the work of PSPC 2.0 around the country. For patients with chronic disease conditions, the lack of coordinated care across health care providers – primary care physicians, specialists, pharmacies and emergency departments – has created an opportunity to make significant improvements in the quality of care delivered. The PSPC teams learn and test leading, evidence-based practices found to significantly improve health outcomes and patient safety through the integration of clinical pharmacy services into a patient-centered, primary health home.
The LCC, PSPC teams and other partners across the nation are working together to achieve the PSPC Aim:
“Committed to saving and enhancing thousands of lives a year by achieving optimal health outcomes and eliminating adverse drug events through increased clinical pharmacy services for the patients we serve.”
Professional organizations from various disciplines, national organizations, and other stakeholders have joined the LCC to provide support and leadership to the Collaborative (see list of LCC members below). The LCC is helping to accelerate the success of the PSPC to ensure that leading practices will be disseminated more broadly throughout the health care system to improve patient safety and quality of care.
The LCC convene periodically to receive updates on teams' progress and explore strategies for involving their respective constituents to achieve even greater success moving forward.
PSPC Leadership Coordinating Council Participating Organizations
AARP
Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
Administration on Aging
Agency for Health Research Quality
Altarum Institute
American Academy of HIV Medicine
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
American Academy of Physician Assistants
American Association for Health Education
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
American Association of Diabetes Educators
American Association of Poison Control Centers
American College of Clinical Pharmacy
American College of OB/GYN
American Health Quality Association
American Hospital Association
American Nurses Association
American Organization of Nurse Executives
American Pharmacists Association
American Pharmacists Association Foundation
American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists
American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists Foundation
AmerisourceBergen
Apexus/340B Prime Vendor Program
Association of Black Health System Pharmacists
Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
Buehler Center on Aging, Health and Society
Cardinal Health
Catholic Healthcare Partners
Center for Health System Pharmacy Leadership
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Clinical Directors Network, Inc.
Community Pharmacy Foundation
Consumers Advancing Patient Safety
Denver Health
El Rio Community Health Center
Expertech
Food and Drug Administration – Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Food and Drug Administration – Office of Women's Health
Health Resources and Services Administration
Healthcare Information and Management Safety Society
Heinz Foundation
Hemophilia Alliance
HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Health Research and Educational Trust
Indian Health Service
Institute for Safe Medicine Practices
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
John A. Hartford Foundation
McKesson
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
National Association for Primary Care, Morehouse
National Association of Chain Drug Stores
National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions
National Association for Community Health Centers
National Association of Counties
National Association of County and City Health Officials
National Association of People Living with AIDS
National Cancer Institute
National Community Pharmacists Association
National Council on Patient Information and Education
National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association
National Governors Association
National Hemophilia Foundation
National Institutes of Health
National Kidney Foundation
National Pace Association
National Patient Safety Foundation
National Quality Center/New York State Department of Health/AIDS Institute
National Quality Forum
National Rural Health Association
Natural Standard
Office of Population Affairs
Pharmacy Quality Alliance
Pharmacy Services Support Center
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Robert Graham Center, Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care
Safety Net Hospitals for Pharmaceutical Access
Texas Medical Institute of Technology
The Joint Commission
Tricare
US Pharmacopia
Veteran's Affairs
