Southwest Iowa Pharmacists Association

03/13/2023

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our SIPA CE program on Thursday!

10/08/2021

Thank you to all our members!

10/01/2021

Happy American Pharmacists Month! Thanks for all you do!

09/18/2021

The Southwest Iowa Pharmacists Association (SIPA) August meeting had a great turn out with a night of learning about Rybelsus and the Iowa State Opioid Response (SOR) Project from Heartland Family Services. Thank you for making our August meeting educational and interesting!

SIPA offers multiple CE accredited programs all year so if you’re licensed in NE or IA this will count toward renewal! Don’t let the ‘Iowa’ in the title fool you, we welcome all pharmacists, pharmacy students and technicians. Come join your fellow classmates, technicians, and pharmacists for great food and learn something new. Learn more about how to join by visiting siparx.org

08/17/2021

The Southwest Iowa Pharmacists Association is happy to announce that we will be hosting an upcoming CE Event - "The Iowa State Opioid Response (SOR) Project”

When: Thursday, August 26, 2021 at 7pm
Where: Cascio’s Steakhouse, 1620 South 10th Street, Omaha, Nebraska
Speaker: Christine Hagen, MSW, Prevention Specialist, Heartland Family Services

Fee:
SIPA Members: No Charge
Non-members: $20.00

Please RSVP by August 23rd at 11:59pm using this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YXDTSKG

11/11/2020

Check out the article in The Nonpareil recognizing Tony! Congrats again Tony, we are proud of you and all the work you do for our profession!

https://nonpareilonline.com/business/local/beraldi-recognized-as-this-years-honorary-president-of-iowa-pharmacy-association/article_4c475b6c-6a22-570c-960f-2a5a238bce07.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_The_Daily_Nonpareil&fbclid=IwAR1-Kh0BGAihhDztVd4zc9nvC5joTAdsOpoNMyXlC3z5K_1pP1_IS0vsCsY

Tony Beraldi’s path into the pharmacy industry was laid out at a young age.

10/11/2020

In case you missed it, our very own Tony Beraldi was unanimously voted IPA’s 2020 Honorary President!

Thank you Tony for your devotion to the field of Pharmacy. Congratulations on this much deserved recognition.

07/06/2020

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil recently published a guest column about the importance of pharmacy technicians and the essential roles that they play. It was written by Judy Neville, CPhT. Judy is the Director of Pharmacy Technician Education at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy, and past president of the American Association of Pharmacy Technicians.

Please share the article with your staff, colleagues, and potential future employees.

Thank you to Judy for taking the time to write this relevant article! It is excellent!

https://nonpareilonline.com/opinion/columnists/guest-opinion-pharmacy-technicians-on-the-front-line-of-health-care/article_9b72f7a5-3634-5e66-87e2-85ffdfcf731a.html

While some jobs are down, traffic for pharmacy technician jobs has increased. The increased need for pharmacy technicians was apparent before COVID-19-related events affected our health care system. And the

02/20/2020

Members of the Southwest Iowa Pharmacists Association- if you live or practice in Iowa, we need your IMMEDIATE help! There is a PBM Bill in the Iowa Legislature--please contact your state representative THIS WEEK!

HSB 685 includes provisions to reform MAC pricing, prohibit retroactive fees imposed by PBMs, and ban spread pricing

If you live or practice in Iowa, this information is especially important:

Earlier this week, I spoke with State of Iowa Representative John Forbes, RPh, of Urbandale, Iowa, who asked for our support of HSB 685.

More information is below, but in brief, the bill would prohibit retroactive fees (DIR's) imposed by PBMs. As many of you know, DIRs are putting many pharmacies out of business, and are impacting pharmacists' salaries.

The bill was APPROVED earlier this week by the House subcommittee to which it was assigned.

This bill presents us with the opportunity to let the legislature know how PBMs have decimated our profession, and to ask for our legislators' support in this fight as we go forward.

It is critical that you contact your State of Iowa Representative to ask him/her to support this bill.

Your comments to your representative can be brief, but it is essential that you contact him/her by phone, email, letter, etc, THIS WEEK! Even a one or two sentence email to your representative would be extremely helpful to getting this bill passed.

If you do not know who your state representative is, go to https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/find and search by entering your address.
Then, your can find your representative's contact information by clicking on your representative's link.

IMPORTANT--do not contact your Senator at this time, just your representative.

Here is what I sent to my state representative:

Mary Ann,

The other pharmacists in our area and I would appreciate your support for HSB 685 when it is discussed by the full House. The practices of PBMs have hurt both large and small pharmacies in our area, and this bill would help to ensure that patients will continue to have access to the health care and medications they need.

Thank you for your consideration,

Tony Beraldi, RPh
Oard Ross Drug Inc
701 16th Avenue
Council Bluffs, IA 51501-6378
ztber@aol.com
712-322-2501
712-322-9875 fax

Please blind copy both Casey Ficek at the Iowa Pharmacy Association at cficek@iarx.org and me at ztber@aol.com on your emails.

You can review the bill at: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=88&ba=hsb685

A brief newspaper summary can be found at https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/iowa-capitol-digest-subcommittee-approves-pharmacy-legislation/article_25ee1e01-a898-5c55-88a0-e30658401a9f.html

Thank you for your help,

Tony

A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items of interest for Monday, Feb. 17, 2020:

12/10/2019

This is the time of year for SIPA Membership Renewal. Our year runs October 2019 through September 2020.

You can renew your membership by going to
www.siparx.org and click "Become a Member" on the homepage.

10/18/2019

The Southwest Iowa Pharmacists Association (SIPA) kicked off October with a night of learning about hemophilia and the Iowa Department of Public Health’s medical cannabis program. Thank you for making our October meeting educational and interesting!

SIPA offers CE accredited programs at least 4 times per year so if you’re licensed in NE or IA this will count toward renewal! Don’t let the ‘Iowa’ in the title fool you, we welcome all pharmacists, pharmacy students and technicians. Come join your fellow classmates, technicians, and pharmacists for great food and learn something new. Learn more about how to join by visiting siparx.org

10/09/2019

LAST CHANCE!!!

Come enjoy some food at Casio's Steakhouse!

RSVP to attend Thursday night's CE program: Iowa’s Medical Cannabidiol Program: Implementation & Status

Link: http://www.programrsvp.com/HEM-1479

10/04/2019

Want to become more involved in your profession and make a difference? Interested in networking with local professionals? Want to stay up to date on new pharmacy info and earn CE?

Become a member of the Southwest Iowa Pharmacist Association today!

Join us for a program this Thursday October 10th on Iowa’s Medical Cannabidiol Program at Cascio’s Steakhouse.

Link in comments below! Hope to see you there!!

10/02/2019

Please join us for our upcoming CE Event - "Iowa’s Medical Cannabidiol Program: Implementation & Status"

Speaker: Owen Parker, MPH, Program Manager, Office of Medical Cannabidiol, Iowa Department of Public Health

Date: Thursday, October 10th, 2019 @ 7 PM

Location: Casio's Steakhouse, 1620 South 10th Street, Omaha, Nebraska

RSVP by Monday, October 7th via http://www.programrsvp.com/HEM-1479

Thursday, October 10, 2019 6:30 PM CT Steven Kang, MD Hosted by Mindy Golin (mgollin@salveohcgroup.com) Program Topic: Shire Educational Program

08/26/2019

Last chance to RSVP to our upcoming CE event this Thursday, August 29th at 7 P.M.! More information is included in the link or you can visit our website: siparx.org

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