Ownership Academy: Pharmacy Owners

You have committed to providing quality healthcare to your community; commit now to your business. NCPA will support you with tools to help you analyze your performance and use the NCPA Digest, sponsored by Cardinal Health to benchmark your pharmacy against other independents across the nation.

Learn how to implement and get reimbursed for your clinical skills with niche market training through the DASPA program.

• CE & Professional Development
  Find continuing education (CE), to keep your license current and Certificate programming to keep your clinical skills sharp. You will also find a wide variety of seminars/short courses, conferences, certificate programs, interactive presentations, and other development opportunities.

• Pharmacy Matching
  www.PharmacyMatching.com brings together independent pharmacy owners preparing to sell their pharmacy, existing owners who desire additional stores and entrepreneurs searching for the right opportunity to become a pharmacy owner.

• Hamacher Resource Group: Free Continuing Education Series
  • Linking OTCs and the Pharmacy Department
  • Merchandising: The Basics
  • Building Blocks to Customer Service Excellence

• Immunization Resource Center
• NCPA Front-End Overhaul

• NCPA Bookstore
  • Pharmacy Immunization Compliance Program—New TO NCPA Bookstore—The R.J. Hedges PICP provides your pharmacy with proper policies and procedures for compliance with immuniation guidelines.
  • The Pharmacy Immunization Compliance Policy and Procedure Program includes:
  • An outline/plan to implement a 10 - 15 minute vaccination process
  • A Bloodborne Pathogen Plan that specifically addresses applicable OSHA Rules and Regulations
  • Training videos
  • Effective Pharmacy Management CD-ROM
    Develop and hone your management and ownership skills. Twenty chapters ranging from entrepreneurship to employment law to marketing principles.
  • NCPA Employee Policy and Procedure Wizard
    Customize policies and procedures for your pharmacy. Every well managed store needs one but developing an employee manual is no easytask. NCPA has made it easy and convenient to customize an employee manual for your pharmacy operation.
  • Pharmacy Technician Training Program
    This manual will serve as a superior training guide for you and your pharmacy technicians. It is also ICPT endorsed for preparing technicians who will be taking the Exam for the Certification of Pharmacy Technicians (ExCPT®).

• Live Oak Bank
• You take care of people in the community; Live Oak takes care of financing your dreams. We have 20+ years of experience providing loans to small healthcare practices, which means you can move forward with confidence. With a third generation pharmacist on staff, we understand the challenges that are unique to your industry. When you're ready to expand, refinance, remodel, or buy an existing pharmacy, you can rely on Live Oak Bank. We're your partner and seeing you succeed is success for us.
• One Destination, Two Roads to Pharmacy Ownership (America's Pharmacist October 2011)

• Ownership Resources
  Members Only information about buying or selling a pharmacy through a Junior Partnership, planning documents for start-up and management tools.
  • Pharmacy Blue Book (preview)
  • Pharmacy Financial Measures
  • Break Even Calculator (preview)
  • Cost of Dispensing Calculator preview
  • NCPA Digest, sponsored by Cardinal Health
    Look up current figures from top-performing and median-reporting pharmacies across the country to benchmark the performance of your business.

• Business Calculators
  • Pharmacy Financial Measures
  • Efficiency Calculator
  • Cash Flow Calculator
  • Profitability Calculator
  • SBA Cash Flow Template

• Protect Your Pharmacy Now!
  • Download the Pharmacy Security Checklist for common weak spots in pharmacy security.
  • Get the RxPATROL Incident Report Form to communicate robbery details to the authorities.
  • Discounts on Employee Background Screening Services and Closed Circuit TV Systems.

• Deals and Discounts

• Profit Mastery: Creating Value and Building Wealth is an online streaming video workshop designed to take the mystery out of the numbers—and to give practical financial tools to enable you to make better business decisions and to obtain better bank credit lines. Profit Mastery will give you the insight to immediately make more, and keep more, of your hard-earned money. Use promotional code "NCPASAV" and save $200 on your purchase.

Some of the skills you will learn in this workshop are how to:

• Speak the language of finance and be better equipped to interact intelligently with numbers people
• Incorporate the Seven Steps to building value into your business
• Understand financial statements and how to use them as management tools
• Apply benchmarks to increase your financial performance
• Understand how to use break-even analysis to control costs and manage profits
• Predict and manage cash flow
• Manage growth effectively
• Make your business irresistible to bankers

• Medicare Part D Resources
  • Fraud, Waste and Abuse FAQ and Print Order Form
  • Exclusion Lists: Check employees against this list to confirm they are not excluded from participating in Medicare & Medicaid programs.
  • www.epls.gov
  • Medicare Part D Audits: 5 Mistakes Pharmacies Can't Afford to Make (Online Tutorial)
  • Star Power: Medicare's Plan Ratings and the Impact on Community Pharmacy (Online Tutorial)

• Employee Screening
  With a 2007 National Retail Federation Loss Prevention survey finding that the majority of retail loss comes from employee theft you can't afford not to screen new hires with every resource available to you. NCPA is partnering with Pedersen & Associates, an investigative consultant firm with 25 years of experience serving community pharmacies, to offer discounts on screenings for NCPA members.