Shields Starts the New Year by Joining Forces with Excelera
January 12th marked a huge milestone for us at Shields, as we announced our acquisition of Excelera, an organization whose mission and values align with our own, to advance health…
Life is Full of Pleasant Surprises
This week’s Care Corner Blog is a patient story shared to us by Patient Outreach Coordinator Priscilla Ngo from NewYork-Presbyterian. The benefits a health-system owned specialty pharmacy can have for…
Making a Difference on a Patients Life and Outlook
This week’s “Care Corner” story was provided to us by our Director of Support Operations, Angela Killay. As Director of Support Operations, Angela leads our Patient support team in providing…
The Best Birthday Present
From a Specialty Pharmacy Liaison – Recently, I’ve been working with a patient diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis to help get her back on her medication. Due to the high cost,…
Establishing Trust With Compassion and Kindness
From a Clinical Pharmacist -In March 2020, we had a new patient transferred to our UConn Health specialty Pharmacy who was suffering from Psoriatic arthritis and being treated with Humira.…
Meet HOSP: The Health System Owned Specialty Pharmacy Alliance
Much like us at Shields Health Solutions, the fully integrated specialty pharmacies market is growing rapidly. It became clear that there needed to be a trade organization committed to advocating…
Bonding Over Shared Backgrounds
From a Clinical Pharmacist – I called a patient for her first cycle of an eight-week course treatment for her Hep C. She had several complaints around side effects, including…
Finding a PBM niche partner may be the best employee benefit strategy in 2021
Stability begets stagnation COVID-19 has left many companies feeling unstable this year, which has companies seeking stability through the deferral of employee benefit decisions to 2021 or beyond. For example,…
Happy Patient, Happy Life
This week’s “Care Corner” story was provided to us by our Director of Support Operations, Angela Killay. As Director of Support Operations, Angela leads our Patient support team in providing…