Recently, the pharmacy team led by Michael Korczynski, PharmD, at Allegheny Health Network (AHN) in Pittsburgh, reached out to a healthy 22-year-old patient. The patient had visited an AHN emergency department for shortness of breath and was diagnosed with COVID-19. He was scared.
As part of a multidisciplinary partnership with AHN Case Management, a transition-of-care (TOC) pharmacist at AHN called the patient within 48 hours of discharge and explained how to take his new