Drafter
Clerk 08/16/2022
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A MOTION in response to a proposed agreement to occupy space for the Harborview Medical Center Long-Term Care Pharmacy Operated by Kelley-Ross Pharmacy Group.
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WHEREAS, Harborview Medical Center is a comprehensive regional health care facility owned by King County and, pursuant to a services agreement with the University of Washington, is operated by UW Medicine. Harborview Medical Center provides specialized care for a broad spectrum of patients. Harborview Medical Center is one of the nation's leading academic medical centers and is the only Level 1 Trauma Center for adults and children serving a four-state region that includes Alaska, Idaho, Montana and Washington, and
WHEREAS, the mission population for Harborview Medical Center, as defined in Ordinance 18232, includes: the non-English speaking poor; the uninsured or underinsured, victims of domestic violence or sexual assault; people incarcerated in King County's jails; people with mental illness or substance abuse problems, particularly those treated involuntarily; people with sexually transmitted diseases; and those who require specialized emergency, trauma or burn care, and
WHEREAS, Kelley-Ross Pharmacy Group, owned and operated by four graduates of the University of Washington School of Pharmacy, has been a resource in King County for pharmacy services since 1925, and has provided accredited specialty long-term care pharmacy services for more than twenty years, and
WHEREAS, since 2018, Kelley-Ross has served as one of Harborview Medical Center's contract pharmacies dispensing long -term care medications to the Harborview Medical Center's Madison Clinic HIV patients, who receive their medications at Bailey-Boushay House, and Harborview Medical Center patients in supportive housing that require medication management, and
WHEREAS, changes in Medicaid program regulations on drug reimbursement have resulted in contract pharmacies being disqualified from receiving ...

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