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LETTER: 53 ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING PATIENTS, SENIORS & RURAL AMERICANS SUPPORT H.R. 1770

Patient Access to Pharmacy Care

LETTER: 105 ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING AMERICA’S PHARMACISTS & PHARMACIES SUPPORT H.R. 1770

America’s Pharmacists & Pharmacies

LETTER: 31 ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING HOSPITALS & HEALTH SYSTEMS SUPPORT H.R. 1770

Hospitals & Health Systems

COALITION HANDOUT: ENSURE PATIENT ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL PHARMACIST SERVICES

Future of Pharmacy Care Coalition

HANDOUT: ENSURE PATIENT ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL PHARMACIST SERVICES

Patient Access to Pharmacy Care

WE SHOULD ALLOW PHARMACISTS TO PRESCRIBE SOME MEDICATIONS

The Hill (Opinion)

Pharmacies are readily accessible in most communities with most Americans living within five miles of a pharmacy.

Jeff Zients, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator

IT FEELS LIKE WE ARE ALWAYS FIGHTING YESTERDAY’S CRISIS AND NOT NECESSARILY THINKING WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TODAY TO PREPARE US FOR WHAT COMES NEXT.

Dr. Luciana Borio, Former Acting Chief Scientist, Food Drug Administration (FDA)

AMERICA’S COMMUNITY PHARMACIES ADMINISTERED OVER 215.9 MILLION COVID-19 VACCINE DOSES IN THE U.S.

Center for Disease Control

90% OF AMERICANS LIVE WITHIN 5 MILES OF A PHARMACY, MAKING PHARMACISTS THE MOST ACCESSIBLE SOURCE OF CARE

Center for Disease Control

55% of Pharmacists work in a community-based setting

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Pharmacists are instrumental to tackling America’s care source access divide

National Institutes of Health

Pharmacists advance health equity by providing medication for chronic disease prevention in care shortage areas

National Institutes for Health

The rural South has lost over 3,500 hospital beds since 2005

FacingSouth.org

Rural communities, or 1 in 5 Americans, must travel an average of 20 miles to access healthcare services, when rural hospitals close

Government Accountability Office

The U.S. ranks last in healthcare access, efficiency, and equity among high-income countries

Commonwealth Fund

Pharmacists Advance Health Equity During COVID-19

National Association of Chain Drugstores

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