Pathway Health (TSX-V:PHC) Corp has announced the signing of a collaboration agreement with Metro Ontario Pharmacies Limited, a subsidiary of Metro Inc, involving the implementation of Pathway's Medical Cannabis Management System (MCMS) in Metro Ontario Pharmacies' Metro Pharmacy and Food Basics Pharmacy bannered pharmacies across Ontario.
The joint initiative has two components: in the first, Pathway will provide its accredited continuing education course ‘Cannabis and Patient Care for Pharmacists’, which trains pharmacists in patient assessments and current prescription reviews for contraindications; while the second involves the implementation of Pathway's MCMS in Metro Ontario Pharmacies' pharmacy locations across Ontario.
“With the signing of this agreement, Pathway Health (TSX-V:PHC) currently has agreements with more than 2,000 pharmacy locations across Canada where we are assisting pharmacists and pharmacy staff with education and training on medical cannabis, and also by providing access to care for those pharmacy patients that are determined to be good candidates for medical cannabis,” Pathway Health (TSX-V:PHC) CEO Ken Yoon said in a statement.
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The company noted that MCMS was designed to be implemented in retail pharmacies, with the overarching goals of providing access points for medical cannabis care and enabling pharmacists to offer medical cannabis assessments to appropriate pharmacy patients.
It added that patients are then connected to the patient's own general practitioner or a Pathway physician/nurse practitioner for further evaluation through physical or virtual care.
MCMS offers patient assessment tools for the pharmacist, including consent forms, marketing materials, back-end patient communication, standard operating procedures, and additional continuing education opportunities.
Pathway Health is an integrated healthcare company that provides products and services to patients suffering from chronic pain and related conditions. The company owns and operates nine community-based clinics across four provinces where its team of health professionals works together to help patients through a variety of evidence-based approaches and products, including medical cannabis.
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