About Moundsville Pharmacy

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Moundsville Pharmacy

For over 35 years, Moundsville Pharmacy has been serving the communities of Marshall County, West Virginia to provide the highest level of pharmacy services and creative solutions to meet the needs of patients.

In 2013, Moundsville Pharmacy introduced prescription synchronization to patients.  The program is designed to align all of a patient’s maintenance (or chronic) medications to be due for refill on the same day each month.  Each month the patient receives a single phone call from a pharmacist to review the patient’s medications and changes in medication therapy. 

“As a pharmacy, we know it is important that every patient receives a personal call from their pharmacist each month.  It allows the patient the opportunity to ask questions and the pharmacist the opportunity to thoroughly review the patient profile,” commented Adele Storm, pharmacist at Moundsville Pharmacy.

It was during the monthly review process that pharmacists Jason Turner and Katie Kacmarik recognized the opportunity to identify additional solutions for better health.  In early 2014, the program was expanded to include a medication therapy management (MTM) component that allows pharmacists to identify even more opportunities to improve patient health.  This enhancement created the PLUS portion of the program – now known as SyncRx+.

Kacmarik explains, “We initially detected opportunities for patients to be better immunized, but we soon realized that synchronization wasn’t just about people getting their medications monthly, but getting the right medications monthly.  We were able to identify additional therapies to reduce a patient’s risks for complications and help them stay healthy.” 

In March 2014, Turner presented the enhanced SyncRx+ program to Dan Benamoz, CEO of Pharmacy Development Services (PDS) and at the request of Benamoz, shared the program at the Annual PDS Business Growth Conference in March 2014. 

Moundsville Pharmacy and Pharmacy Development Services worked together to develop training materials for pharmacists and have since trained pharmacies from Puerto Rico to Hawaii to use the SyncRx+ program.  In addition, nearly a dozen pharmacy owners and their teams have traveled to Moundsville from as far away as North Carolina, New York, and eastern Pennsylvania to observe the processes and learn the SyncRx system so that they can provide a higher level of service to the patients in their community. 

“To develop an idea like SyncRx+, which we knew would positively impact the lives of so many of our patients, has been a rewarding professional accomplishment - but knowing it has been adopted by other pharmacists and is now impacting patient lives beyond our pharmacy is simply overwhelming,” explained Turner.    

In 2015, Turner and Kacmarik were honored as the PDS 2015 Pharmacists of the Year for their contribution to the profession in developing (and training) the SyncRx+ program and the successes Moundsville Pharmacy has experienced in prescription synchronization, pharmacy performance, and growth. 

“Jason and Katie have both contributed to the independent pharmacy profession in many ways but especially with the program development and education they have shared with their peers about prescription synchronization,” said Sharon Rasnick, Vice President Service Delivery, Pharmacy Development Services.