If you have the option to fill your prescriptions at your local pharmacy or a mail-order pharmacy, you might be curious about the differences between the two.
Read Safety ArticleAn article in the Philadelphia Inquirer by business columnist Jeff Gelles explained how health insurers and their contracted pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) make it financially attractive for you to get your prescriptions filled by mail-order pharmacy (usually owned by the insurer or PBM) rather than your local community pharmacy. For example, you may be able to get a 90-day prescription for one co-payment vs. only a 30 day supply at a local pharmacy.
Read Safety ArticleParents should be able to assume that the schools their children attend have a full-time nurse on site every day, but many do not. While the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 1 and the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) 2 call for every school to have at least one full-time registered nurse on site all day, little has been done to make this a reality. Currently, only half of American schools have a full-time nurse on site every day. 3,4 Thirty percent of schools have a part-time nurse, and nearly 20% do not have a school nurse at all. 3,4 As schools contend with tight budgets, some nurses have been laid off, and many have been asked to cover multiple schools within the same school district.
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