Parkview Health Services Awarded Specialty Drug and Long-Term-Care Exemplary Provider® Status
SPRING HOUSE, PA (April 2017) – Parkview Health Services, LLC of Buffalo, New York has been awarded Exemplary Provider® accredited status for their Specialty Drug and Long-Term-Care pharmacy operations by The Compliance Team, Inc., the nationally recognized independent healthcare accreditation organization based in suburban Philadelphia, PA.
Recipients of Exemplary Provider® accredited status are required to score 90% or better and demonstrate outstanding healthcare delivery practices as the result of a rigorous on-site facility evaluation. The Compliance Team’s Specialty Drug and Long-Term-Care accreditations are valid for a 3-year period.
Kevin O’Leary, President and CEO of Parkview Health Services said “ we are proud to have earned Exemplary Provider status . . . those who trust us with their prescription needs deserve the utmost in professional, clinically accurate pharmacy services. To be awarded this level of accreditation is an indication of the teamwork we expect from everyone here at Parkview to maximize both patient compliance and satisfaction. ” O’Leary went on to add that “working together with The Compliance Team professionals, Parkview will continue its long-standing tradition of offering its patients state-of-the-art solutions for all of their pharmacy needs.”
Central to The Compliance Team’s operations-based program is the establishment of fraud and abuse awareness measures in accordance to Medicare’s Office of Inspector General’s recommendations. In addition, participants are required to meet comprehensive quality standards dealing with all aspects of a pharmacy’s operations that include setting in place a continuous improvement mechanism as well as reporting patient satisfaction results; giving Parkview the means to prove its quality claims to patients, referral sources and third-party payers.
Parkview Health Services, LLC, is a Western New York based pharmacy servicing 17 counties in Upstate NY. Since 1985, they have maintained a commitment to providing quality care and pharmacy services to consumers in assisted living facilities, developmentally disabled residences, mental health clinics, chemical dependency rehabilitation facilities, and others. More information is available at
www.parkviewhs.com.
Formed in 1994, The Compliance Team, Inc. (TCT) was the first and remains today the only certified woman-owned, for-profit, national healthcare accreditation organization to receive Medicare (CMS) “deeming authority”—2006 Part B-DMEPOS; 2014 Part A-Rural Health Clinics. The firm presently accredits thousands of provider organizations that are based in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. For more information about The Compliance Team, call 215-654-9110.