New Specialty Pharmacy at Johns Hopkins Home Care Group
A pharmacy that provides specialty outpatient and infusion services opens this month at the headquarters of Johns Hopkins Home Care Group. The new facility, located at the division’s Holabird Avenue office in Baltimore, is the ninth such pharmacy in the Johns Hopkins Health System.
In addition to filling prescriptions, the pharmacy offers medication management services for high-cost, specialty drugs that include oral, injectables and infusions used to treat infertility, hepatitis C, inflammatory diseases, cancer, HIV and rheumatoid arthritis, and to help control pain.
The Home Care expansion also includes rooms for staff members to educate patients and caregivers about infusion treatments and about how to operate medical equipment, including the masks and devices used to treat sleep apnea. Pharmacists will instruct patients how to take medications and why medication compliance is important.
A new call center at the facility will take all inbound calls requesting prescription refills at the specialty pharmacies at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Medical Pavilion at Howard County and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. This service will help to centralize operations and give medical equipment trainers and pharmacists more time to serve patients.
MLK Jr. Commemoration
Johns Hopkins’ 34th Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration will take place on Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Turner Auditorium on the East Baltimore campus. The theme is “The Beloved Community: A Force for Social Change.” This commemoration marks the first since the death of its founder, civil rights activist and medical pioneer Levi Watkins Jr. The program will feature world-renowned opera singer Denyce Graves, as well as Watkins’ nephew, Levi Garraway, director of the Joint Center for Cancer Precision Medicine at Dana-Farber Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Broad Institute. As always, Unified Voices, a choir of local residents and Johns Hopkins employees, will sing spirituals, and recipients of the 2015 MLK Jr. Community Service Awards will be recognized. There also will be a video tribute to Watkins.
Learn more about the event here.