Boosting the Status Quo: Vaccinating America’s Most Vulnerable 

During the pandemic emergency, amendments to the Public Readiness & Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act expanded the authority of pharmacists to administer certain vaccines. As a result, pharmacists provided more COVID-19 vaccine doses than any other healthcare professional, and took on the responsibility of administering vaccinations to older adults in long-term care settings.  

Now that the public health emergency is over, a bipartisan bill known as The Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act (ECAPS) would establish a federal Medicare reimbursement mechanism for pharmacists to provide testing, treatment, and vaccinations for specific infectious diseases such as COVID-19, flu, RSV, and strep throat. 

What are the merits and challenges of the ECAPS bill? What are the latest vaccine recommendations for older adults this cold and flu season? How are vaccination programs administered in long term care? How is the U.S. tracking against its vaccination goals? What role should pharmacies and pharmacists play? And how can Washington address the challenges of patient access and the broader long-term care pharmacy market?  

Join The Hill as we convene leaders in Congress, the administration, healthcare, and patient advocacy to answer these questions and more.

LOCATION
Washington, DC, and streaming nationwide

DATE & TIME
Tuesday, September 17th
7:45 AM ET Registration & Networking
8:30 AM ET Programming begins
10:00 AM ET Programming concludes

Program Segments:

HEADLINER INTERVIEW | View from Capitol Hill (In conversation with Bob Cusack, Editor in Chief, The Hill)

• Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-IN), Vice Chair, House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health; Co-Sponsor, Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act

PANEL DISCUSSION | Vaccinating the Vulnerable (In conversation with Bob Cusack, Editor in Chief, The Hill)

• Jodi Eyigor, Director – Nursing Home Quality & Policy, LeadingAge
• Sue Peschin, President & CEO, Alliance for Aging Research
• Rebecca Wingate, VP – Clinical Operations, PharMerica

HEADLINER INTERVIEW | The Case for Vaccines & Public Health (In conversation with Bob Cusack, Editor in Chief, The Hill)

• Dr. Meg Sullivan, Counselor to the Secretary, Dept. of Health & Human Services

SPONSOR PERSPECTIVE |  ASCP (In conversation with Joe Ruffolo, General Manager, The Hill)

• Deborah Milito, President, ASCP

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Sponsored By:

ASCP is a nonprofit association of pharmacists and pharmacies that manage medications of older people and the medically complex. ASCP is an international organization with members located in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and 12 countries. The society’s mission is to promote healthy aging by empowering pharmacists with education, resources, and innovative opportunities.