Busy organizations like NCPA need a roadmap to guide them to success on all of their major goals. That's what our new Strategic Plan is for: organizing our efforts to help independent community pharmacies across the country succeed. In this month's issue of America's Pharmacist® we go deep into NCPA's three year strategic plan.
It's all built around PROFIT:
- PBM reform
- Reinvest for members
- Optimize our organization
- Fortify advocacy
- Improve pharmacy operations
- Target member messaging
In the article, we cover how the plan helps guide NCPA as we work to address our strategic priorities and how the plan was created.
Also in this issue:
- We document the work NCPA has done that led up to this year's historic PBM reforms since Medicare Part D went into effect in 2006.
- Jeff Kircher, RPh, explains the importance of continuing education and clinical curiosity for students transitioning into professional roles.
- Rachel Helbling, captain of the team of students from the University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy who won the 2025 Good Neighbor Pharmacy NCPA Pruitt-Schutte Student Business Plan Competition, explains to us what it was like putting the plan together and the lessons the team took away from it.
- Get to know Tyler Poirier, NCPA's associate art director, whose responsibilities touch all aspects of our public-facing design work (including the magazine itself!).
Read this month's issue here.
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