Alternative Method Demonstration Project
Summaries
Current
Projects
Aaron
E. Henry Community Health Services Center
Clarksdale, Mississippi
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract pharmacies
Approved: Oct., 2002 –Sept., 2008
Aaron E. Henry Community Health Center
(AEH), the University of Mississippi,
School of Pharmacy, and three other federally
qualified health centers worked together
to establish an effective pharmaceutical
care program in the Delta region. Implementing
the program required AMDP approval, which
was granted, permitting AEH to utilize
multiple community pharmacies to deliver
affordable medications and other clinical
pharmacy services to eligible patients.
AMDP Contact:
Aurelia Jones-Taylor
Chief Executive Officer
Aaron E. Henry Community Health Services
Center, Inc.
Phone: (662) 624-4292
ataylor@aehcommunityhealth.org
Alcona Health Center and Thunder
Bay Community Health Services
Lincoln, MI
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
/ Network
Approved: Jan., 2005 – Dec., 2010
Alcona Health Center and Thunder Bay Community
Health Services are long-term partners
in providing primary health care to the
rural poor of northeast Michigan. The
two Federally Qualified Health Centers
(FQHCs) work collaboratively to provide
pharmacy services, behavioral health,
primary care and other services; and are
also linked in the areas of information
services, administration, clinical services,
personnel, finance and other support services.
The network has a main hub in Flint, Michigan
that houses the centralized database of
patient profiles and financial records.
The hub enables all participating pharmacies
to access patient eligibility and medication
use information; and patients of either
health center to utilize all pharmacies
in the network.
AMDP contact:
Raymond Krause
Pharmacy Business Manager
NCC
Phone: (989) 356-0673
rkrause@ncc-mi.net
Brackenridge Hospital
Austin, TX
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Nov., 2005 – Oct., 2011
Brackenridge Hospital is an acute care
disproportionate share hospital and outpatient
facility located in Austin and owned by
the Travis County Hospital District. It
is the oldest public hospital in Texas.
Brackenridge will contract with multiple
pharmacies to increase access to prescription
drugs for its patients.
AMDP Contact:
Greg Behrens
Network Pharmacy Director
Brackenridge Hospital
Phone: (512) 324-7305
Fax: (512) 324-8225
GBehrens@seton.org
CHAS Pharmacy Network
Spokane, Washington
AMDP Model: Network
Approved: Dec., 2001 – Sept., 2008
The Community Health Association of Spokane
(CHAS) and Native Health of Spokane (NHOS)
formed a network that utilizes remote
dispensing technology to dispense medication
at remote health clinics. The service
area includes Spokane, the second largest
city in the state of Washington, as well
as largely rural and highly remote areas
of the state. CHAS serves as the lead
network member and the central pharmacy
for the network.
AMDP Contact:
Aaron Wilson
Deputy Director
Community Health Association of Spokane
3919 N. Maple, Spokane, WA 99205
Phone: (509) 444 8888 ext. 1006
Fax: (509) 444 7806
awilson@chas.org
Children’s National Medical Center,
Hemophilia Treatment Center
Washington, DC
AMDP: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Mar., 2008 – Feb., 2014
Children’s National Hemophilia Care
targets patients served in the Washington
DC and surrounding Maryland and Virginia
areas. This AMDP will add an additional
contract pharmacy, allowing the Hemophilia
Treatment Center to increase access for
additional 20 or more patients.
AMDP Contact:
Eddie Liao
Center Director
Children’s National Hemophilia Care
Phone: (202) 476-5168
eliao@cnmc.org
Columbus Regional Community Healthcare
Network
Columbus, Georgia
AMDP Model: Network
Approved: Mar., 2002 – Feb., 2009
The Medical Center (TMC), a local safety
net hospital, the Community Health Center
of South Columbus (now Valley Healthcare
Systems, Inc,) and Stewart Webster Rural
Health of Richland, Georgia have formed
the Columbus Regional Community Healthcare
Network (CHC Network). As the lead network
member, TMC orders, purchases, and dispenses
medications on behalf of the network.
TMC has a well-established clinical pharmacy
program that allows clinical pharmacists
of TMC to work closely with physicians
and nurses of the network in drug therapy
management to improve effectiveness of
therapy while minimizing adverse drug
events, and in educating patients and
families to increase patient understanding
and compliance with medication therapy.
AMDP Contact:
Burnis D. Breland
Director of Pharmacy and Clinical Research
The Medical Center
Columbus Regional Healthcare System
Phone: (706)571-1495
FAX: (706-571)1861
burnis.breland@crhs.net
Community Health Center, Inc.
Middletown, Connecticut
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Mar., 2006 – Mar., 2012
Community Health Center, Inc., (CHC,Inc.)
is a multi-site FQHC serving approximately
50,000 patients annually from its sites
in nine cities in Connecticut. Community
Health Center, Inc. approval to utilize
multiple contracted pharmacies includes
a partnership with a national pharmacy
chain to provide pharmacy services both
off-site and on-site to patients o the
health center.
AMDP Contact:
Kerry O'Connell
Executive Assistant
Community Health Center, Inc.
Phone: (860) 347-6971
Kerry@chc1.com
Community Health Centers of Southern Iowa
Leon, Iowa
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Sep., 2006 - Aug., 2012
The Community Health Center of Southern
Iowa is a Federally Qualified Health Center
that delivers accessible high quality
primary, preventative, and behavioral
health care in the Southern Iowa Region
to anyone in need. They opened their first
location in April 2005 i Leon, Iowa and
a satellite site in Lamoni, Iowa in June
2005. The introduction of multiple contracted
pharmacies will remove geographical barriers,
improve access to pharmaceuticals, and
decrease costs for patients.
AMDP Contact:
Gary C. Rees
Chief Executive Officer
Phone: (641) 446 2383
grees@chcsi.org
Community Health Centers -Community Care
Services Department
Austin, Texas
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Nov., 2005 – Oct., 2011
The Austin-Travis County Community Care
Services Department was created by a partnership
between the City of Austin City Council
and the Travis County Commissioners Court.
The members of the Community Care Services
Department operate fifteen FQHC clinics,
including seven urban clinics, five rural
clinics, and three dental clinics. Austin-Travis
County will contract with a pharmacy chain
to provide pharmacy services to its patients.
AMDP Contact:
David Vliet
CEO
Community Health Centers
Community Care Services Department
Phone: (512) 972-4242
david.vliet@ci.austin.tx.us
Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS)
Martinez, CA 94553
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Mar., 2008 – Feb., 2014
Contra Costa Health Services is a comprehensive,
integrated, public health care system
serving residents of Contra Costa County,
located approximately 20 miles east of
San Francisco, California. The health
system features a general acute care hospital
and ten Federally Qualified Health Centers.
The Alternative Methods Demonstration
Project will utilize multiple contract
pharmacies to supplement one in house
pharmacy. This AMDP will increase the
covered entity’s patient access
to 340B priced prescriptions by contracting
with a retail pharmacy that has multiple
locations in the community.
AMDP Contact:
Robert De Cesare
Compliance and Privacy Officer
Contra Costa Health Services
Phone: (925) 957-5429
bdecesar@hsd.cccounty.us
Detroit Medical Center (DMC)
Detroit, Michigan
AMDP Model: Network
Approved: Nov., 2007- Oct., 2013
The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is a
nonprofit corporation that owns and operates
a number of hospitals in the metropolitan
Detroit area. DMC plans to increase access
to 340B priced pharmaceuticals for their
patients by creating a “supplemented
network” of pharmacies. The supplemented
pharmacy network will consist of the Applicants’
outpatient pharmacies and approximately
fifteen to twenty contract retail pharmacies
in designated high volume patient areas.
AMDP Contact:
Vincent Howard
System Executive Director of Retail Pharmacy
Detroit Medical Center
Phone: (313) 966-2237
AWilson4@dmc.org
Eastern Maine Medical Center
Bangor, Maine
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Aug., 2005 – July, 2011
Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) is
a subsidiary of Eastern Maine Healthcare
System in Bangor, Maine. EMMC is a disproportionate
share hospital serving the Central/Eastern/Northern
parts of Maine as well as the northern
two thirds of the State for specialty
and intensive services. The hospital will
contract with multiple pharmacies to serve
its patients in Bangor and in other more
rural parts of the state.
AMDP Contact:
Norm Belair
VP of Finance
Eastern Maine Medical Center
Phone: (207)973-6488
Fax: (207)973-7348
Georgia Department of Human Resources,
Division Of Public Health, Office of Pharmacy
Atlanta, Georgia
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Apr., 2006 – Mar., 2012
Georgia Department of Human Resources,
Division of Public Health, Office of Pharmacy
is responsible for the planning, development
and delivery of comprehensive HIV related
services funded under Title II of the
Ryan White CARE Act, including the AIDS
Drugs Assistance Program (ADAP) for the
state of Georgia. Georgia's ADAP will
contract with multiple pharmacies throughout
the state to improve access to comprehensive
pharmacy services for their clients.
AMDP Contact:
Anasa Johnson
State ADAP Pharmacy Director
Georgia Division of Public Health - Office
of Pharmacy
Phone: (512) 972-4242
Fax: (918) 967-3351
teresa.huggins@stiglerhwc.com
Greater New Bedford Community Health Center
Bedford, Massachusetts
AMDP Model: Multiple contract pharmacies
Approved: July, 2004 – June, 2010
The Greater New Bedford Community Health
Center (GNBCHC) is the only community
health center serving the residents New
Bedford, MA. The health center contracted
with three pharmacies that target each
corner of the GNBC service area. Contracted
pharmacies were chosen based on an inventory
that identified where prescriptions were
filled and WIC vouchers redeemed.
AMDP Contact:
Peter C. Georgeopoulos
Executive Vice President
Greater New Bedford Community Health Center
Phone: 508-984-8411
peterg@gnbchc.org
Harris County Hospital District (HCHD)
Houston, TX
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Dec., 2007- Nov., 2013
Harris County Hospital District (HCHD)
is a Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH)
with fourteen clinic sites providing care
for the Houston, TX metropolitan area.
In order to provide more comprehensive
and convenient pharmacy services to all
patients, HCHD is proposing to contract
with an additional pharmacy site for each
of the fourteen listed clinic sites.
AMDP Contact:
Nguyen, Tam
Director of Community Health Pharmacy
Programs
Phone: (713) 566-5140
Tam_Nguyen@hchd.tmc.edu
Hudson Headwaters Health Network
Ticonderoga, New York
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Dec., 2001- Sept., 2008
Hudson Headwaters Health Network (HHHN)
operates several sites, all of which are
widely disbursed in the Glens Falls/Lake
George/Adirondack region of northeastern
New York and designated as medically underserved
areas (MUAs). The HHHN project is intended
to demonstrate the value and efficiency
of contracting with multiple pharmacies
to deliver needed medications to community
health centers with multiple sites scattered
throughout a rural geographic region covering
more than 2,500 square miles. Hudson Headwaters
is partnering with chain-store pharmacies
as well as local independent pharmacies,
and will utilize remote dispensing technology
to provide pharmacy services in communities
that do not have access to a local pharmacy.
All pharmacies provide mail order prescription
delivery.
AMDP Contact:
Jim Donnelly
Director of 340B Pharmacy Services
Hudson Headwaters Health Network
Phone: (518) 761-0300 ext. 221
jdonnelly@hhhn.org
Lake County Tribal Health Consortium
Lakeport, CA
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Feb., 2007 – Jan., 2013
The Lake County Tribal Health Consortium
(LCTHC), located in Lake County, California,
provides primary health care to the American
Indian population throughout that area
as well as serves non-native Medicaid
and uninsured patients. LCTHC is a California
non-profit consortium of six federally
recognized tribes. The consortium will
use multiple contracted pharmacy services
to improve access to comprehensive pharmacy
services.
AMDP Contact:
Robert Ottone
Executive Director
Lake County Tribal Health Consortium
Phone: (707) 263-8382
rottone@lcthc.org
Muskegon Family Care
Muskegon, Michigan
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
/ Supplement in-House Pharmacy Services
Approved: Aug., 2005 – July, 2011
Muskegon Family Care contracted with a
local pharmacy to provide services to
patients at two of its clinics. Future
plans include opening an on-site pharmacy
owned by the health center, at which time
the existing contracted pharmacy will
supplement in-house pharmacy services.
AMDP Contact:
Thomas E. Lufkin
Executive Director
Muskegon Family Care
Phone: (231) 777-6179
LufkinT@mfc-health.org
Niagra Falls Memorial Medical Center
Niagra Falls, NY
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Jan., 2007- Dec., 2012
Niagra Falls Memorial Medical Center provides
services in the Niagra Falls area through
a single Disproportionate Share Hospital
and its three child site clinics. To expand
pharmaceutical services that are more
adequate to the population, this AMDP
allows each of the four 340B eligible
sites to have two contracted pharmacies.
AMDP Contact:
D. Chris Frauenhofer
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Niagra Falls Memorial Medical Center
Phone: (716) 278-4000
Northwest Community Health Care
Pascoag, RI
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: May, 2008 - May, 2014
Northwest Community Health Care is a community
health center located in northwestern
Rhode Island. The organization serves
patients from three towns in an extensive
rural area. Northwest will contract with
two additional pharmacies to increase
access to prescription drugs for their
patients.
AMDP Contact:
Peter J. Bancroft
CEO
Phone: (503) 588-5828
plogan@nwhumanservices.org
People’s Community Clinic
Austin, TX
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Nov., 2005 – Oct., 2011
People’s Community Clinic is the
largest comprehensive primary health care
center serving the uninsured working poor
in Austin. The Clinic seeks to demonstrate
increased access to 340B drugs by contracting
with multiple pharmacies in Austin.
AMDP Contact:
Regina Rogoff
Executive Director
People’s Community Clinic
Phone: (512)708-3121
reginar@austinpcc.org
Planned Parenthood of the Capital
Region
Austin, TX
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Nov., 2005 – Oct., 2011
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital
Region, Inc. is a non-profit health care
organization established to provide preventive
health care and family planning services
to patients in Austin, Texas. Planned
Parenthood will contract with multiple
pharmacies to improve access to prescription
drugs for its patients.
AMDP Contact:
Glenda Parks
Executive Director
Planned Parenthood of the Capital Region
Phone: 512) 275-0171 x109
glenda.parks@ppfa.org
Southcentral Foundation pharmacy Network
Anchorage, Alaska
AMDP Model: Network
Approved: Apr., 2003 – Sept., 2008
Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC), Eastern
Aleutian Tribes-Whittier Clinic, and Eastern
Aleutian Tribes Sand Point formed the
Southcentral Foundation Pharmacy Network
to dispense medications to Native and
non-Native patients within the Indian
Health Service’s Anchorage Service
Unit. The area encompasses about 107,413
miles and the land exceeds that of forty-two
states. The Southcentral Foundation project
utilizes a central pharmacy and remote
dispensing technology to provide pharmacy
services to rural, isolated communities
that would otherwise not have access to
affordable prescription drugs. As the
lead network member, ANMC serves as the
central pharmacy, purchasing 340B drugs
on behalf of the network and dispensing
those drugs to patients of the network.
AMDP Contact:
CAPT Gary M. Givens
Pharmacy Director
Alaska Native Medical Center
Phone: (907) 729-2126
Fax: (907) 729-2120
ggivens@anmc.org
Stigler Health and Wellness Center,
Inc.
Stigler, Oklahoma
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Aug., 2005 – July 2011
Stigler Health and Wellness Center is
a Federally Qualified Health Center that
is designated as both a Health Professional
Shortage Area (HPSA) and a Medically Underserved
Area (MUA). In an effort to increase access
to affordable prescription drugs for its
patients, Stigler has contracted with
multiple pharmacies, one of which has
established a payment plan that permits
patients to purchase medications on credit.
AMDP Contact:
Teresa Huggins
CEO
Stigler Health and Wellness Center
Phone: (918) 967-3368
Fax: (918) 967-3351
teresa.huggins@stiglerhwc.com
Thundermist Health Center (THC)
Woonsocket, RI
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Nov., 2007 – Oct., 2013
Thundermist Health Center is a multi-site
FQHC serving about 26,000 patients annually
from its sites in three Rhode Island communities
(Woonsocket, West Warwick and South Kingstown
(Village of Wakefield). This demonstration
project will dramatically improve patient
access to a wider range of pharmaceuticals
utilizing multiple contract pharmacy arrangements.
AMDP Contact:
Ernest Balasco
Chief Operating Officer
Thundermist Health Center
ernieb@thundermisthealth.org
William F. Ryan Community Health Center
New York, New York
AMDP Model: Multiple Contract Pharmacies
Approved: Mar, 2004 – Apr, 2010
The William F. Ryan Community Health Center
(Ryan Center) is the largest free-standing
community health center in New York, and
one of few health centers in New York
City that provides an affordable pharmacy
benefit to its patients. Contracted pharmacies
participating in the demonstration project
serve Ryan Center’s patients in
the Upper West Side, Manhattan Valley,
and Central Harlem.
AMDP Contact:
George Ghobrial
CFO
William F. Ryan Community Health Center
gghobrial@ryancenter.org
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