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JULY 7, 2020

Transition-of-Care Pharmacists Fill Gaps During COVID-19

By Alison McCook

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