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CHRISTUS Health Partners with Shields Health Solutions to Give Patients and Families Enhanced Specialty Pharmacy Services 900 500 Shields Health Solutions

CHRISTUS Health Partners with Shields Health Solutions to Give Patients and Families Enhanced Specialty Pharmacy Services

IRVING, Texas (June 29 2021) – CHRISTUS Health, a Catholic faith-based not-for-profit health system with more than 600 centers, including community hospitals, urgent care centers, health insurance companies and physician…

 The Benefit of Embedded Pharmacists for Patients with HIV 1024 576 Shields Health Solutions

 The Benefit of Embedded Pharmacists for Patients with HIV

We recently interviewed Dr. Ryan Kates, PharmD, BCACP, AAHIVP, and Clinical Pharmacist from Northwestern Medicine Specialty Pharmacy. Dr. Kates works as an embedded pharmacist in an HIV clinic five days…

Excelera Network Welcomes BJC HealthCare 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

Excelera Network Welcomes BJC HealthCare

MINNEAPOLIS, June 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BJC HealthCare has entered an agreement with Excelera®, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shields Health Solutions and the company behind the Excelera Network, making it the first Excelera…

One Survivor’s Story and How She Pays It Forward 1024 576 Shields Health Solutions

One Survivor’s Story and How She Pays It Forward

June 7 marks National Cancer Survivors Day. In today’s Care Corner Blog, we feature one of our own pharmacy liaisons who bravely defeated cancer and now assists those in the Shields…

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How The Shields Care Model Supports Mental Health

The concerns surrounding mental health have never been greater and this Mental Health Awareness Month, we showcase how we support the whole person in our integrated care model through the…

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The value of pharmacist interventions in supporting safe medication use

Specialty patients benefit every day from pharmacists being at the center of their clinical and care management. For example, when pharmacists perform clinical interventions, it can support safe medication use…

Study Shows Shields Health Solutions Integrated Specialty Pharmacy Model Significantly Reduces Total Cost of Care 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

Study Shows Shields Health Solutions Integrated Specialty Pharmacy Model Significantly Reduces Total Cost of Care

BOSTON, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Shields Health Solutions (Shields), the leading health system specialty pharmacy integrator, announced today the results of a joint study with Optum Advisory Services that…

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Family Planning With Multiple Sclerosis

March is Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Awareness Month and Shields is proud to support over 5000 patients across 20 of our partner health-systems with their MS treatment. According to the National…

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Celebrating Women’s History Month!

March is Women’s History Month and we at Shields celebrate our female staff who are vital to the success of our mission. Our work force is 71 percent female and…

How The Shields Care Model Addresses Inequities 1024 576 Shields Health Solutions

How The Shields Care Model Addresses Inequities

In this blog, we take a glance at some of the health inequities that the Black community faces in the United States and share a story on how the Shields…