What We Do

I-CPEN is the Illinois Community Pharmacy Enhanced Network. We are building a Community Pharmacy Enhanced Service Network (CPESN) for independent, ambulatory, and other community-focused pharmacies to improve health outcomes with increased pharmacist involvement in patient care. In our collaboration with the Illinois Pharmacists Association as well as the CPESN USA, we aim to best assist pharmacies in engaging our patients more critically and through impactful means.

Enhanced Services

The main mode of collaboration between network pharmacies is through the use of Enhanced Services. As defined by the CPESN USA, pharmacies providing Enhanced Services that transcend conventional requirements of an outpatient pharmacy program contract and focus on improving clinical and global patient outcomes. Our goal in the I-CPEN is to provide such quality, enhanced services to improve our patients’ clinical outcomes and optimize utilization of healthcare resources. We wish for network pharmacies to directly engage our healthcare system with pharmacists as integral providers who coordinate care with physicians, payers, and beyond. 

Common Core Services

1. Adherence Packaging
2. Comprehensive Medication Reviews (CMRs)
3. Immunizations
4. Medication Reconciliation (MedRec)
5. Medication Synchronization (MedSync) with Personal Medication Record (PMR)

Our Mission

I-CPEN will improve the health of Illinois patients by collaborating with other health care providers and patients to achieve therapeutic outcomes with safe, effective, evidence-based medication management.

Our Vision

I-CPEN is a network of community-focused pharmacies that provide an elevated set of pharmaceutical care services to patients in their communities.  The services provided by I-CPEN pharmacists will improve patients’ overall well-being and advance the profession of pharmacy while providing documented value and reducing healthcare costs for patients and our health care system.

Our Goals

1. Develop, implement, maintain, and expand a network of community pharmacies

2. Provide quality, enhanced services to improve patients’ clinical outcomes and optimize utilization of healthcare resources

3. Work collaboratively with health care providers, health systems, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), payers and pharmaceutical industry via a single contracting entity to document and achieve improved health outcomes

4. Currently 0 contracted pharmacies, goal of 75 pharmacies by 2020

Education

School of Pharmacy

Education

School of Pharmacy

Board member

Klodiana Myftari

An Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Midwestern University Chicago College of Pharmacy. She received a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Pharmacy. She went on to complete PGY1 residency with emphasis in Community Care with University of Illinois at Chicago and Dominik’s Pharmacy. Her practice experience include community and ambulatory care pharmacy. She currently practices as clinical pharmacist for Rush Population Health at Rush University Medical Center as part of an interdisciplinary team. She provides transitional care services, medication management services for medium/high risk population and serves as a consultant for nurses, clinical license social workers and primary care physicians. Klodiana has been activity involved in developing new clinical serviced in both community and ambulatory care pharmacy settings. Integrating pharmacy services within primary care and advocating for collaborations of health systems with community pharmacies is one of her current responsibilities. She loves precepting students and residents and has a passion for advocating the value of clinical pharmacy.

We also would like to recognize members of the initial committee members who helped create the beginning blocks of the I-CPEN:

• Ashley Branham

• Jenny Rosselli-Lynch

• Janice Frueh

• Laura Licari

• Tim Lehan

• Maggie Krumwiede

• Micah Howell

• Starlin Haydon-Greatting

• Michelle Dyer