Featured Resources and Initiatives
Pharmacy Closures Map
Pharmacies are often the most accessible point of healthcare in a community, and the alarming rate at which both corporate and independent pharmacies are closing poses a grave public health risk. This map from the ACT Pharmacy Collaborative highlights only a fraction of these closures across the country, providing media stories where available about how each closure is affecting local communities.
50 Stories from 50 States Challenge & Multimedia Library
The 50 Stories from 50 States Multimedia Library, an initiative from the ACT Pharmacy Collaborative, showcases the vital patient care services that community pharmacies are providing nationwide. The written narratives, videos and photos can be used in educational and advocacy efforts to showcase pharmacists’ increasingly complex and crucial role in healthcare.
ACT Curricular Framework
The ACT Pharmacy Collaborative developed a consensus Community Pharmacy Practice Transformation Curricular Framework for colleges/schools of pharmacy to utilize as they revise courses and curricula to meet the changing expectations for delivery of patient care services in community pharmacies nationwide. This document presents a curricular framework for community pharmacy practice transformation as a recommendation to all colleges and schools of pharmacy. We invite you to use this Framework to engage faculty and administrators on curricular design and outcomes to help drive practice transformation.
ACT Patient Casebook Challenge
Colleges and schools of pharmacy nationwide were invited to participate in the 2020 ACT Patient Case Challenge. The goal of this Challenge was to collect and share impactful cases that demonstrate enhanced patient care provided by pharmacists and student pharmacists in community pharmacies. Collected cases were compiled into an online workbook available for use by colleges and schools of pharmacy. Key components of the cases include that they are based on an actual patient encounter, represent enhanced patient care services in a community pharmacy, integrate documentation using eCare Plan Standard language, and that they demonstrate value.
Access the ACT Patient Casebook
Access the Challenge Participants
Implementation Resources
National Implementation Research Network
- The National Implementation Research Network uses the science and practice of implementation to help solve real world problems.
- Click here to learn more.
Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA)
- Pharmacy Quality Alliance unites the healthcare industry to improve the quality of medication use. PQA contributes as a measure developer, quality educator, researcher, and convener to the industry.
- Click here to learn more.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have various implementation guides available on their website. Click here to learn more.
- Click here for the Best Practices for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Programs guide.
- Click here for A Program Guide for Public Health: Partnering with Pharmacists in the Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases.
- Click here for the Collaborative Practice Agreements and Pharmacists’ Patient Care Services - A Resource for Pharmacists.
ACT Articles Featured in Pharmacy Times
- 5 Quick Tips to Create a Transformative APPE Rotation 8/18/21 By Megan Smith, PharmD, BCACP, Shelby Bennett, PharmD, BCACP
- Incorporation of Medication Synchronization in Community Pharmacy Workflow Enhances Delivery of Patient Care Services 11/2/21 By Stefanie P. Ferreri, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA
- Providing Patient Care in a Community Pharmacy Career 11/9/21 By Sophia Herbert, PharmD
- How to Use Data to Transform Pharmacy Practice 11/29/21 By Joni Carroll, PharmD, BCACP, Lucas A. Berenbrok, PharmD, MS, BCACP
- Three Ways Community Pharmacies Can Partner With Academia to Implement Patient Care Initiatives 2/10/22 By Shanna K. O'Connor, PharmD, BCACP, Christine Phan, PharmD