MALONE, N.Y. — KPH Healthcare Services, Inc. announced it has teamed up with Citizen Advocates to provide on-site pharmacy care at its clinic in Malone for people needing behavioral-health services.
Gouverneur–based KPH Healthcare Services — a provider of pharmaceutical and health-care services — has four divisions, including Kinney Drugs, a chain of nearly 100 drug stores located throughout New York and Vermont.
With administrative offices in Malone, Citizen Advocates is a nonprofit that provides developmental disability; mental health; and substance-abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery services throughout Franklin, Clinton, Essex, Hamilton and St. Lawrence counties, per its website.
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About the partnership
KPH Healthcare Services recently announced the addition of Kinnect, an on-site pharmacy option for community health centers. The service is designed to “enhance convenience and privacy” for those receiving mental health and addiction services.
The ability to provide the “appropriate care at the right time in the right setting is essential,” particularly when addressing urgent treatment needs such as those resulting from the opioid addiction crisis, per a KPH news release.
Nearly 46 percent of adults will deal with a type of mental illness or addiction at some point in their lives, “having a critical impact on nearly every family.” This initiative allows patients access to private, personalized and coordinated care, where pharmacists work directly with providers and case managers at Citizen Advocates to “optimize the delivery and utilization of medications.” Kinnect pharmacists will “enhance adherence and health outcomes, boost patient satisfaction, and help bend the cost curve,” KPH contended.
The availability of the Kinnect pharmacy staff is an optional resource for individuals receiving care through Citizen Advocates. All individuals continue to have the option of receiving prescribed therapies from the pharmacy service of their choice.
Contact Reinhardt at ereinhardt@cnybj.com
