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.
Take advantage of NCPA promotions to remodel your pharmacy with Gladson or reach new customers with marketing materials from PDS. Learn how to implement and get reimbursed for your clinical skills with niche market training through NIPCO certificate programs.
» Annual Convention and Trade Exposition
» Legislative Conference
» Multiple Locations Conference
Find continuing education (CE), to keep your license current and National Institute for Pharmacist Care Outcomes (NIPCO) 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.
» 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 Manual
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®).
Members Only information about buying or selling a pharmacy through a Junior Partnership.
» Pharmacy Financial Measures
» 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.
» Efficiency Calculator
» Cash Flow Calculator
» Profitability Calculator
» SBA Cash Flow Template
» Break Even Calculator
» Cost of Dispensing Calculator
» Small Business Administration
» Texas Office of Rural Community Affairs Small Business
Surescripts encourages you to share your e-prescribing experiences via the Pharmacy E-Prescribing Experience Reporting Portal. They welcome all comments - whether you have suggestions for improvement or complaints about the process. The Portal is not a technical support site, rather its aim is to gather information to identify trends and system issues. Technical support issues should be reported to your pharmacy software vendor.
» Read tips to help stop drug diversion and protect your patients.
» Watch videos to learn more about robbery and diversion.
» 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.
Buy-Sellapharmacy.com
Our firm functions as evaluators, appraisers and advisors to the world of independent community pharmacy buyers and sellers. Utilizing 21st Century technology tools and sophisticated financial modeling capabilities, we help buyers and sellers enter into a fair and equitable transaction, one which will withstand the test of time and provide each party to a transaction with what they expected. For the seller, a fair price and a qualified buyer. For the buyer, an economic outcome that will provide him or her with a reasonable return on invested capital, the ability to service any debt incurred and the ability to earn a salary commensurate with the managerial responsibilities and risks involved in owning one's own business. NCPA members are entitled to special discounts from our standard fee schedule on all professional services.
Pharmacy Development Service
The NCPA / PDS Marketing Solutions center provides pharmacists with innovative marketing
strategies, tools and resources in a web-based product to increase sales from existing
customers, attract new customers and track and measure advertising.
Gladson Store Design Group
Breathe new life into your store with a remodel designed by Gladson Store Design Group.
NCPA Members receive discounts on consultation and design service.
» Linking OTCs and the Pharmacy Department
» Merchandising: The Basics
» Building Blocks to Customer Service Excellence
» Fraud, Waste and Abuse FAQ
» NCPA Employee Manual—customize policies and procedures for your pharmacy
» PRS Compliance Program and Training Manual
» Preventing Fraud Waste and Abuse Training Program
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.