Lori Lewicki, RPh, and Holyoke Health Center Pharmacy Director, explains, “Family members or medical practitioners refer patients to the Med Box program. Often times if a son or daughter can't handle their mom or dad's meds, they can be referred to an HHC medical assistant or nurse because it’s difficult for the patient to be compliant when they may be on 15 or 20 daily medications and can’t handle them. In order to get on Med Box packaging we make sure that they go through an MTM visit first. We then follow up on a regular basis to make sure they’re remaining compliant with their medications through the program.”
More than 800 patients are now on the Med Box program. “We’re planning to ramp that up because we're doing a study with a senior care option plan called CCA that has 200 of their patients on Med Box. They would like all of their patients on Med Box.”
