NACDS chair Nightengale sees changes ahead

‘A new and transformative period for pharmacy’

PALM Beach, Fla. — Freshly elected NACDS Chair Brian Nightengale dealt with retailers and suppliers Tuesday early morning, detailing the troubles and chances ahead for the field, and arguing that NACDS is nicely positioned to be a catalyst for “a new and transformative period for pharmacy.”

Throughout the Tuesday Enterprise Software at the 2022 NACDS Annual Meeting, Brian Nightengale, president, Superior Neighbor Pharmacy, gave his to start with remarks as NACDS Chair and obtained the NACDS Chair’s gavel from Colleen Lindholz, president, Kroger Well being, The Kroger Co.

Nightengale, who oversees Excellent Neighbor Pharmacy, a network of over 4300 retail pharmacies nationwide, delivered his remarks at the NACDS Once-a-year Meeting Company System on Tuesday. He recognized the NACDS Chair’s gavel from Colleen Lindholz, president, Kroger Health and fitness, The Kroger Co., who accomplished her time period as NACDS Chair.

A pharmacist by coaching, Nightengale commenced his vocation “moonlighting in both equally unbiased and chain pharmacies” — developing through people ordeals “a passion for the career and for serving the community as a pharmacist.”

Nightengale mentioned the methods in which retail pharmacies and suppliers stepped up to provide the country — innovating boldly and generating the decisions necessary to produce a new amount of treatment and provider to their communities.

“I consider it is protected to say that the American community now has a full new appreciation for the critical position that retail pharmacies play in assembly their health and wellness requires,” Nightengale mentioned.

“I want to thank our affiliate member firms and the provider group as a whole, for your partnership and support. Through this pandemic, you assisted to make certain that we ongoing to have access to the items and solutions we rely on, and in several means, altered the way you do small business to assure continuity across the offer chain. The magnitude of this marketplace-large reaction is only unbelievable when you seem back again at every thing that has been achieved about the previous two many years.”

Nightengale went on to describe pharmacies’ clear and critical function in the health care ecosystem — and the important need to form the long term of pharmacy so that Us residents sustain access to pharmacist-offered care providers in instances of crisis and every single day. These topics ended up also talked about through Sunday’s Yearly Meeting Business Application.

“Retail pharmacy is the most obtainable web page of treatment in the U.S.,” Nightengale reported. “We have the possible to empower consumers with total well being and wellness solutions. Nevertheless, although retail pharmacy has shined on the nationwide stage, swiftly evolving marketplace dynamics — some old, some new — need to be tackled for us to be ready to truly provide on the comprehensive benefit that we can provide as America’s most obtainable health and wellness locations.

“These dynamics give real chances for our providers and our marketplace to rework itself into a thing better — a thing that we have by now confirmed doable throughout the pandemic — that as the most accessible, most reliable and most very affordable health care desired destination in The us we can and need to have an expanded job within just the health and fitness and wellness ecosystem inside of this nation.”

He also comprehensive NACDS’ role as the “strong catalyst for transformation:”

“NACDS has always offered its associates a system to be ‘the experience of neighborhood healthcare’ and now, probably more than ever, NACDS plays an even higher function in aiding our field navigate the problems of nowadays and capitalize on the prospects that lie in advance.”

Nightengale also emphasized NACDS’ critical priorities for the calendar year, which will keep on to include things like:

• Working to make certain truthful and adequate pharmacy reimbursement “for the merchandise we dispense and the care products and services we provide”
• Growing patients’ entry to pharmacy-based treatment companies “by leveraging the lessons uncovered and the undeniable affect our job has had for the duration of this pandemic”
• Ensuring that NACDS continues to serve users very well into the future, “think[ing] creatively about the long run part that NACDS associates — and so NACDS — need to participate in in the total health and wellness journey of all Americans”
• Maximizing the return to in-human being conferences and conferences so that users have the prospect to collaborate and construct the long run of the sector.

“As we arise from the pandemic and march onward towards the 90th anniversary of NACDS future yr, we’re on the verge of completely redefining how we serve our patients and individuals,” Nightengale reported. “But for that to take place, we must act, and that time is now.”

Tuesday’s Small business Program also integrated remarks by former protection secretary, Dr. Mark Esper.

Dan Figus, vice president, U.S. chief buyer officer, Johnson & Johnson Shopper Wellness, also spoke, and Johnson & Johnson Client Health and fitness supported the morning’s Company Plan. Similarly, Lisa Paley, head, U.S. and North The united states, GSK Consumer Health care, spoke for the duration of Sunday morning’s Small business Application, which was supported by GSK Shopper Health care.