OnePoint Patient Care Expands Its Hospice Pharmacy Services to Portland, Ore., Announces Partnership With Providence …

PORTLAND, OR and CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - Sep 18, 2012) - OnePoint Patient Care, an independent hospice pharmacy services provider, announced today that it has launched its newest Hospice Pharmacy Center of Excellence in Portland, Ore., and has begun providing local medication dispensing, cost-management programs and pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services to Providence Hospice, a leading Portland-based hospice. With the addition of Providence to its roster of hospice partners, OnePoint has begun dispensing medications daily to more than 3,000 new patients in the third quarter.

Under its Center of Excellence model, OnePoint creates for its hospice partners a local 24-hour Hospice Pharmacy in their city to locally fill and dispense medications, create custom compounds and provide same-day deliveries to 100 percent of the hospice's patients, regardless of patient setting. Since launching its Center of Excellence model earlier this year, OnePoint has already established Centers of Excellence in Boston, Las Vegas, Nashville, Chattanooga and now Portland, with several more planned. OnePoint also offers its hospice partners exceptional clinical advice, customized formulary compliance and cost-management programs, and best-in-class pharmacy benefits management (PBM) services, along with a streamlined implementation process that ensures an easy transition for new hospice partners.

"We know one of the most daunting aspects of changing pharmacy service providers that hospices face is the transition. They need to have their full resource and attention on patient care, not worrying about what could go wrong," said Jeffrey S. Hohl, President and Chief Operating Officer of OnePoint Patient Care. "We work hard to ensure the transition is seamless and the implementation smooth for our hospice partners. We lead them through the end-to-end process with detailed project plans, professional and timely management meetings and IT know-how. Our hospice partners tell us we make the transition very easy for them, and that the top-tier client service and cost savings that they receive as a result are well worth the effort."

The establishment of its partnership with Providence Hospice and its most recent Center of Excellence in Portland are just the latest in a continuing string of successes for OnePoint, which has built on its significant sales momentum from the first half of the year to augment its daily patient census total by 3,000 in the third quarter.

In addition to Portland's Providence Hospice, OnePoint Patient Care has contracted to provide both dispensing and PBM services with two other significant hospice partners in the third quarter:

OnePoint will provide dispensing and pharmacy benefits management services for Carle Hospice and its full suite of services for Nathan Adelson Hospice, including local dispensing, local delivery, and full PBM services with enhanced reporting capabilities and custom formulary management.

Finally, OnePoint secured dispensing renewals from five of its existing hospice partners to continue providing them hospice pharmacy services for the next three years:

"It is gratifying to have earned new business from these three leading hospices because it affirms that our singular commitment to hospice, competitive pricing and superior patient care is resonating in the market.We've developed unique dispensing capabilities to meet the demanding needs of discerning hospice providers that other local pharmacies and national PBMs are incapable of providing," said James A. Otterbeck, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of OnePoint Patient Care."It is even more gratifying, though, that our existing hospice partners have chosen to continue trusting us with their patients because it shows that hospice pharmacy is not a commodity and that we're successfully delivering on our commitment. We are extremely proud of our people and the outstanding service they provide, and even prouder that they are what make hospices stay with us, some for more than 30 years."

For additional information about OnePoint Patient Care and its Hospice Pharmacy Centers of Excellence, please call (866) 771-OPPC.

About Providence Hospice Based in Portland, Ore., Providence Hospice provides expert, compassionate care for individuals as they face the end of life. For more information, please call (503) 215-CARE (2273) or visit http://oregon.providence.org/patients/programs/providence-hospice/Pages/default.aspx.

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