AzPA Vision Statement
Empowering pharmacy professionals to provide optimal patient
care
Mission Statement
The Arizona Pharmacy Alliance is committed to serving and
representing all pharmacy professionals in all practice settings.
AzPA will foster safe and effective medication therapy, promote
innovative practice, and empower its members to serve the health
care needs of the public.
Bylaws
Download The Arizona Pharmacy
Alliance Bylaws
Strategic Plan: Key Goals & Objectives
2007 AzPA Board Retreat Review
The Board identified multiple topics and issues that would be
potential topics for inclusion into the 2007-2008 Operations
Plan. Participants then voted on the most important topics for
inclusion into the plan. The starred (*) items were then selected
for inclusion
Inadequate use of technology
Improve academy committee function
Need to increase pool of potential future board members
NASPA adherence initiative
Any willing provider
Medication reconciliation
Revise collaborative practice agreement
Standardize CE certification process
Critical reimbursement issues
Lack of knowledge of pharmacist function and capability
Revise bylaws
Identify sources of additional revenue
Increase membership
A policy committee or task force should be
appointed to analyze and make recommendations to the AZPA Board
of Directors including:
1. Current board structure and function
2. Need/function for districts
3. Develop process/ procedures for increasing or decreasing
the number of academies
4. Develop needed board policies to deal with statements in current
bylaws that refer to "per board policy"
5. Evaluate the need for a standing policy committee
Inadequate use of technology
Increase use of technology for communication by:
1. Hiring someone with IT experience
2. Explore use of U of A videoconferencing capability to hold
meetings
3. Explore the use of personal computer videoconferencing to
hold meetings
4. Use webinars/podcasts/email blast to communicate with members
about
important issues
5. Increase use of conference calls for committee/academy/district
activities/meetings
6. Use to communicate board minutes, notes and memos (password
protected)
7. Use web page as a resource for the community
Increase use of technology for members and
recruitment
1. Need a Webmaster
2. Develop an on-line registration for events including annual
meeting
3. Website needs sections for each academy
4. Need links to guidelines and other professional organizations
5. Develop recruitment-marketing video for use on the site
6. Use text messages where possible for recruitment
7. Develop profiles of members e.g. Board, Committees
Increase use of technology for continuing education
1. Use website to house CE programs free to members
2. Use website to house CE programs to sell to non-members including
webinars
and interactive computer programs
Increase knowledge of pharmacist capabilities
and function
Develop public relations focused media campaign
1. Use general single phrase videos like CPhAs
2. Accent advanced practice roles
3. Promote individual pharmacists with unique work environments,
unusual community service or who are active in broader healthcare
coalitions such as emergency preparedness, TAPI, Katy's kids,
Open Airways, etc.
The Communications committee should develop
a speakers bureau of experts on various topics and advertise
to civic groups, other organizations, retirement communities
Increase membership
Survey new practitioners, students, and technicians about what
they want out of membership
(Use Senior project)
Use results to develop marketing plans and tools specific to
those groups about the benefits of membership in AzPA
Increase corporate sponsorship of both pharmacists
and technicians
Improve student recruitment by maintaining contact throughout
the year by increasing involvement with academy counterparts
Focus on technicians
1. Use email, company mail mailers and personal contact
2. Assistance in COP application process
3. Increase benefits for technicians i.e free journal?
4. Recruitment contest among technician members- winner get discounted/free
registration at annual meeting
5. Reduce membership/annual meeting registration
6. Develop scholarships/sponsorships to annual meeting
7. Market to technician students?
Increase other sources of income
Consider raising dues
Increase income from CE
Develop CE programs for sale (free or reduced fees for members)
Develop refresher course/certificate programs for pharmacists
Lobby board of pharmacy to enact live CE requirement
Expand to 2 large meetings per year (an annual meeting and a
midyear --one in Phoenix, the other in Tucson)
Increase advertising income
In the Journal
Develop a more robust job opportunity page in the website-charge
for ads
Increase charitable donations to APF by individuals,
corporations, and community members
Use funds to create College of Pharmacy scholarships
Develop additional social event/fundraisers
for APF
Modify Journal format to be like The Western
Journal of Medicine and sell it to other state associations and
their members in the West.
Will contain excellent and practical clinical
materials plus news about pharmacy activities in each state
Use volunteer editors and reviewers to reduce expenses
Improve academy/committee function
Need coordination/collaboration among academies/districts/committees
Consider a council of Academy chairs
Consider a counsel of Committee chairs
Hold meetings of district directors
Use Health-system academy as template for success
More support for academies/committees/districts
Add more support staff?
Use past leaders as volunteers to support personnel
Use Kristina's expertise to support optimal committee and academy
function
Look into technician academy affiliation with
national organization (include Mayela Fox and Barbara Reyes)
Define structure of districts
Stress/focus on single organization with joint
visions
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