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Looking for ways to support your patients during the holiday weekend? Check out these tips!

Holiday weekends tend to bring increased demand and unique patient needs--especially when fireworks, hot weather, and other factors are involved.

Here's how to keep your community healthy this weekend.

🎆Counsel patients on heat-related risks--a lot of medications increase sun sensitivity or dehydration risk

🎆Review refill requests early so you can process the influx of last-minute requests

🎆Remind patients that alcohol interacts with many common medications (antibiotics, anxiolytics, blood pressure drugs)

🎆Counsel on sunscreen and medications that cause sun sensitivities (fluoroquinolones, diuretics, some antidepressants)

🎆For patients with known PTSD or anxiety, fireworks can be triggering. Make sure to have mental health resources available to share.

🎆Brush up on wound care education to share with patients. Everything from minor burns to lacerations and eye injury care.

🎆Know when to send a patient to emergency services if their issues are beyond your scope of care

You might be the most accessible healthcare provider this weekend, so your care matters!

How do you support your patients on holiday weekends?

Medicare Update: $50 GLP-1 Access Starts July 1

GLP-1 medications are transforming weight management and now, Medicare is bringing a big update with it.

Starting July 1, 2026, CMS is launching the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge Program, giving eligible patients access to select weight-loss medications for just $50/month.

Pharmacies will be on the front lines helping patients understand:
✅ Who qualifies
✅ Which medications are covered (Wegovy®, Zepbound®, Foundayo®)
✅ How claims and prior authorizations will work
✅ What the flat $50 copay really means

Why it matters for your pharmacy:
- No opt-in required
- New revenue opportunities with WAC-based reimbursement
- More patient conversations (and loyalty) at the counter
- A chance to position your team as trusted experts in a rapidly evolving space

Learn more before the first claims roll in:

What Pharmacies Need to Know About the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge Program GLP-1 medications have transformed how weight loss and management are being treated — and beginning July 1, 2026, there will be a major shift in how Medicare...

Most people don’t think about who’s managing their grandmother’s 13 daily medications at 2am.

Long-term care pharmacists are.

These are the professionals coordinating around-the-clock dispensing, preventing dangerous drug interactions, and reducing unnecessary hospitalizations for millions of people, but most policymakers have never heard of them.

That’s exactly the problem Esmé Grewal, the newly appointed President & CEO of the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition, is on a mission to fix.

In our conversation with Grewal, she shares:
✔️ Why good medication management is the most under-told story in healthcare
✔️ How shrinking reimbursements are quietly destabilizing an entire sector
✔️ What it will take to turn LTC pharmacy’s invisibility into influence on Capitol Hill

With the U.S. long-term care population expected to almost quadruple by 2050, this isn’t a niche industry story.

“LTC pharmacists are the people that are changing lives and bringing relief and creating opportunities for people to live safely.”

Read the full interview:

LTC Pharmacy Has a Visibility Problem. Here’s How SCPC’s New CEO Plans to Fix It Long-term care pharmacy is an unsung hero among the healthcare sector’s many players. But a critically important one for our loved ones in nursing homes...