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P3 Program Overview (formerly HealthMapRx)
Coaching Employees to Effectively Manage Chronic Diseases

 

Virginia Business Coalition on Health is pleased to announce it's partnered with the Maryland P3 Program (Patients, Pharmacists, Partnerships) to deliver the approach to improve patient health care—the P3 (Patients, Pharmacists, Partnerships) TM Program for Diabetes.

 

The program is offered to our employer-members and their employees and beneficiaries with diabetes. Participation is voluntary and those participating will actively engage in an educational/health monitoring program and work with specially trained pharmacists to learn how to self-manage their condition.  The desired goal of this program is to demonstrate that individuals who participate in the program can learn how to successfully self-manage their own diabetes treatment, and by doing so, improve and maintain their good health while reducing the need for expensive medical services.

 

The Patients Pharmacists Partnerships (P3) Program is an effective solution to patient-centered health education and chronic disease self-management. Specially trained pharmacist coaches apply a model of care that provides step-by-step guidance in medication adherence, lifestyle changes, and self-care skills. Through a dynamic partnership, the P3 Program provides a growing number of employers assistance in improving their employees' health management skills. The P3 Program has served hundreds of patients in mid-Atlantic region including Maryland.

The P3 Program began in 2006 with one employer in Western Maryland and has since expanded to many self-insured employers across the region.  The P3 Program collaboration involves the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, the Maryland Pharmacists Association, HealthMapRx LLC, the Maryland General Assembly, and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.  The Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy coordinates the partnership and trains licensed pharmacists working in the P3 Pharmacist Network. 

The P3 Program team translates research findings into practical knowledge for individuals with chronic diseases - an important step to improving health outcomes through pharmacotherapy adherence.

 

For more information about the P3 Program, participation, and costs, please contact:

Eileen E. Ciccotelli, MPM
Vice President
eciccotelli@myvbch.org
757.552.0913

                                     Thank You!

VBCH acknowledges the National Business Coalition on Health, the Community Coalitions Health Institute, and Merck for graciously funding the 2008 Diabetes Seed Grant Award to VBCH.

VBCH acknowledges the generosity and the support of it's educational partners for Diabetes:
                   Merck
                   Novo Nordisk
                   Pfizer
                   Sanofi-Aventis