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MDT Home Health Care Agency, Inc. 217 MEDICATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM PURPOSE: • To support patient safety and to improve the quality of care, treatment and services provided by MDT Home Health Care Agency, Inc. • To improve the performance of medication management processes, thereby continuously improving patient health outcomes and reducing the occurrence of medication-related errors and medication- related adverse patient outcomes, including adverse drug reactions. POLICY: • The Performance Improvement Committee, acting on behalf of the Agency and its Governing Body, shall implement a Medication Management Assessment and Evaluation Program to provide a system to ensure medication use within the organization is conducted in a safe and optimal manner. • The Medication Management Assessment and Evaluation program requires the routine evaluation of literature for new technologies and best practices that have been demonstrated to enhance safety in other organizations to determine if these practices are conducted successfully within the organization or if they should be implemented to improve the medication management system. • The Medication Management Assessment and Evaluation Program identifies risk points (including medication errors and adverse drug reactions) and identifies areas to improve patient safety as well as the overall use of medications throughout the organization. • For the purposes of this program the definition of medication includes: • Prescription medications • Sample medications • Herbal remedies • Vitamins • Nutraceuticals (substances not controlled by the FDA, not proven beneficial by authoritative sources, however the public commonly utilizes – example: Ingestible Shark Cartilage) • Over-the-counter drugs • Vaccines • Radioactive medications • Respiratory therapy treatments