Mastering Meds: Exploring Approaches to Pharmacy in Hospital at Home

Recorded March 30, 2021

This webinar focuses on a topic raised time and again by Hospital at Home User Group™ members — how to best structure and integrate pharmacy services into a hospital at home program. Informed by the experience of Mount Sinai and Brigham Health, as well as hospitals and systems across the country, this webinar will address a wide range of practical considerations such as:

• Service requirements for the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver
• Why and when to build a standalone pharmacy function versus “buying” one
• Best practices for using inpatient pharmacies vs. outside vendors and infusion companies
• How to handle patient-administered medications
• Managing your pharmacy-EHR integration
• Treating patients’ chronic medications, as well as prescribing new medications
• How to review existing pharmacy policies that may need to be updated

Panelists
Donald Mashni, PharmD
System Director, Specialty Pharmacy
Mount Sinai Health System

Linda DeCherrie, MD
Clinical Director, Mount Sinai Hospitalization at Home
Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

David Levine, MD, MPH, MA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Brigham Health and Harvard Medical School

Moderator
Bruce Leff, MD
Director, The Center for Transformative Geriatric Research
Professor of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine