Omnicare Senior Manager Rick Foley discusses a holistic approach of medication stewardship beyond polypharmacy. He explores how prescribing cascades affect residents’ wellbeing and care outcomes.
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Medication stewardship is one of the most consequential and overlooked levers that long-term care facilities can pull to improve resident outcomes while controlling costs. In this webinar, members of Omnicare’s clinical pharmacy team walk through what a modern and effective stewardship program actually looks like inside a skilled nursing or assisted living community, and why it matters more now than it did five years ago.
Facilities today are managing residents with more complex medication regimens, tighter regulatory scrutiny, and thinner clinical staffing than ever. A medication stewardship program gives your team a structured way to reduce polypharmacy risk, catch adverse drug interactions before they become incident reports, and align prescribing practices with each resident’s actual care goals, not just their diagnosis list.
In this session, you’ll hear how Omnicare’s consultant pharmacists partner directly with facility clinical staff to:
- Review high-risk medication regimens on a regular cadence, not just at admission
- Identify opportunities for deprescribing when a medication’s risk has outgrown its benefit
- Standardize how your facility documents and communicates medication changes across shifts
- Build stewardship into existing workflows rather than adding a separate compliance burden
The webinar also covers how stewardship ties directly into survey readiness. Surveyors increasingly look for evidence of active medication management, not just accurate charting, and a documented stewardship process gives your facility a defensible, repeatable answer when that question comes up.
Whether you’re building a stewardship program from scratch or tightening up one that already exists, this session is designed to give your director of nursing, medical director, and pharmacy liaison a shared playbook they can put to use immediately.
Watch the webinar to see how a stronger medication stewardship program can reduce risk, support better resident outcomes, and give your clinical team back time they’re currently spending on reactive medication issues. If you’d like to talk through what stewardship could look like at your facility specifically, request a consultation with an Omnicare pharmacist below.
