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This phrase represents everything to us and our practice. Our pharmacy's motto is "Better solutions. Better care." Because of that, we take everything personally and we treat everyone with a personal touch — from the moment they walk in and hand the prescription to us to creating their personal formula and taking it from paper to product in our lab. We finish by delivering a custom prescription, making sure our patients know we truly care.
I have always had a passion for compounding, largely discovered during my first year of pharmacy school. I helped create a curriculum for a compounding elective at Ferris State University and the idea of “traditional medicine” and pharmacists creating treatments for patients was and is always on my mind.
When I first became part of the team at Healthway Compounding Pharmacy, we already were members of PCCA since 1991. Everything PCCA offers keeps me here — the educational videos and documents that opened me up to what the world of compounding has to offer; the in-house, hands-on training and conferences, including International Seminar, and the wealth of knowledge there; and the networking and getting to know people with like-minded, personalized care goals.
We are the future of pharmacy: "What was old is now new again." With so many people having allergies and intolerances to fillers, compounders are able to step up and make a custom, personalized formula for an individual. Additionally, patients want alternative options to live longer and compounders are at the forefront of the antiaging wave with functional medicine.
When I moved into my new home, I reached out and introduced myself to my neighbors. One, who worked as a nurse for 50+ years, described to me the chronic pain she endured and how she was using multiple opioids daily. I told her about a topical pain cream made with amitriptyline, baclofen, cyclobenzaprine, diclofenac and lidocaine, and gave her information for her practitioner. She got the prescription and it worked great, but she was still using opioids. So I told her about low-dose naltrexone (LDN). Since starting on LDN, she’s been able to stop taking opioids. She’s now using LDN regularly and only applies the topical cream for breakthrough pain. She asked me, "Where were you 30 years ago?" I laughed and told her I was not a pharmacist then. I am grateful to share her story — working together, prescribers and pharmacists can create customized plans for patients transitioning away from opioids.
We have an outside consultant who calls on provider offices in our area. I try to get all patients to rate us on Google and Facebook whenever they can to share their experiences and outcomes. In recent years, we have donated to a festival of trees during the holidays. I hope to get more involved with the community as time progresses and I move forward with Healthway.
Compounding has directly impacted me in my home life. After my wife had our twins and was breastfeeding them, she needed the “magic nipple cream,” which helped. She was healed within days and was able to continue. In addition, one of my infant twins had eczema. Working with our pediatrician, we were able to get topical steroids compounded in an antibiotic cream using PCCA XemaTop™. My baby girl’s skin was back to baby soft (like her twin sister’s) in three days after repeated use. Now, tetracaine lollipops for sore throats in young children is a HUGE lifesaver!
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Check out the Healthway team’s enthusiasm for Emulsifix in this rocking video.