Medication Management

Today we find more drug choices for more conditions than ever before. At the same time, drugs are more expensive and more difficult to properly take than ever before.

Patients who have any of the following indicators may benefit from medication management:

• Taking 5 or more medications (polypharmacy)
• Taking medications for 3 or more medical problems
• Taking medications from multiple physicians and/or pharmacies.
• Has decreased liver and/or kidney function
• Is age 60 years or older
• Has impaired vision, decreased manual dexterity, and/or hearing loss

For the Patient: Education to better control your health care.

• Learn about your medications
• Take your medication as prescribed
• Tell you physician about ALL the medications you are taking
• Be compliant with required labs for the monitoring of medications
• Use only one pharmacy
• Ask questions if you don’t understand

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For the Physician: Enhancing your Care Team

• Fewer side effects and complications through Drug
  Interaction Profiles completed at each admission and recertification
• Improved medication management skills
• Fewer hospitalizations, emergency room visits and unplanned physician visits due to medication mismanagement
• Promotion of independence, higher level of function
• Reduction in cost of care

How Can Home Health Help?

• CareSouth home health clinicians educate patients about their disease and how to safely and effectively manage the medications used in their treatment.
• Each patient’s medication profile is carefully screened for potential adverse drug and food interactions and the attending physician is provided with a complete report of these findings.
• Integration of clinical pharmacy services into the CareSouth medication management program gives patients with chronic conditions dependent on multiple or complex drug therapies a greater degree of confidence in care and outcome.
• With physician approval, the Caresouth staff can enlighten the patient about many useful tools for drug management, such as a pill box minder.
• The home health worker can monitor the patient schedule for timely laboratory testing critical to a patient’s drug regimen.

For more information or to make a referral please contact:

Augusta Office

One Tenth Street, Suite 500
Augusta, Georgia 30901
Tel: 706-854-7500
Fax: 706-854-7550