NCPA Digest, Sponsored by Cardinal Health: A Guide to Improved Pharmacy Practice

Sunday, October 24, 2010, 7:30 a.m. — 9:00 a.m.
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Location: Convention Center, Room 204B, 2nd Floor
Continuing Education Credits: 0.15 (1.5 Contact Hours)
ACPE #: 207-000-10-317-L04-P
ACPE #: 207-000-10-317-L04-T

Numbers and percentages, ratios and formulas—these always tell a story about the condition of your business, but they can be much more powerful in guiding your practice to successful expansion and increased profits. This program will bring you the data that will help you to benchmark your practice along-side your most successful pharmacy peers, but it doesn't stop at that! Your independent pharmacy colleagues who have been profiled in the digest will share their market niches and the data they used to make decisions, they will share how they implemented these key decisions and what the end result was on their pharmacy's bottom line.

Pharmacists Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Discuss financial performance trends in independent community pharmacy in 2009.
• Outline how to utilize pharmacy average data to benchmark individual performance indicators from a community pharmacy.
• Identify key data to collect to assess pharmacy niche performance.

Technician Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Discuss financial performance trends in independent community pharmacy in 2009.
• Outline how to utilize pharmacy average data to benchmark individual performance indicators from a community pharmacy.
• Identify key data to collect to assess pharmacy niche performance.

Speaker: Donna West-Strum, Chair and Associate Professor of Pharmacy Administration, Research Associate Professor, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi; and Pharmacist Panel

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