M Health Fairview

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M Health Fairview is an award-winning, nonprofit health system providing exceptional care across the full spectrum of health care services. M Health Fairview is one of the most comprehensive and geographically accessible systems in the state, with 10 hospitals,including an academic medical centerand 60 clinics, — serving the greater Twin Cities metro, north-central Minnesota, and western Wisconsin. Our broad continuum includes primary care clinics, specialty clinics, senior living communities, retail and specialty pharmacies, pharmacy benefit management services, rehabilitation centers, counseling and home health care services, medical transportation, and an integrated provider network.

Fairview at a glance

34,000+ employees
5,000+ system providers
10 hospitals & medical centers
2,071 staffed beds
56 primary care clinics
100+ specialties
90+ senior housing locations
36 pharmacies
54 MTM clinic locations (40 primary care, 14 specialty care)

Fairview Pharmacy Services: Fairview has provided comprehensive medication management (CMM) services (referred to as MTM) in their clinics since 1998. We currently have 42 MTM pharmacists.  Each year, our team has over 25,000 patient visits.

Other Fairview Pharmacy Services areas include: retail pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, home care and hospice, long-term care pharmacy, compounding pharmacy, specialty pharmacy, home infusion pharmacy, clinical trials and Fairview’s own PBM, Clearscript.

Educational Experience

A typical work week includes 4 days in direct patient care in our primary care (family and internal medicine) clinics. The resident will work collaboratively with the clinic care team to address patient’s medication related concerns. Residents will conduct MTM visits in person or using telehealth technology (telephone and video). In addition to providing CMM services, the resident will be available to answer drug information questions (dosage recommendations, formulary medications, etc.) and research medication topics to assist clinic staff. Each resident will develop their own collaborative practice agreement with the providers at their clinic. Additionally, residents are given the opportunity to precept APPE students during their clinic time.

In addition to direct patient care, the resident will also complete a one-month management rotation that will extend longitudinally throughout the year (one day per week). The management rotation will expose the resident to system-level pharmacy projects, population health, contracting with health insurers, and the financial management of a large MTM program. Additionally, on this non-clinic day, the resident will also devote time to working on the residency project, management projects, creating a monthly pharmacy-related update to educate providers, and completing activities set forth by the University of Minnesota (Academic Day, Curbside Consult, etc). There is also the opportunity to help teach the Building an MTM Practice elective course at the University of Minnesota. Residents will also have a staffing requirement at the Riverside discharge pharmacy.

Typical Weekly Schedule (PDF)

Site Coordinator

Picture of Allyson Schlichte, PharmD, MBA, BCACP

Allyson Schlichte, PharmD, MBA, BCACP is the Medication Therapy Management Operations Lead for Fairview Pharmacy Services. Allyson graduated from Drake University with a Pharm.D. and M.B.A. She has been providing care for patients since she started at Fairview as an Ambulatory Care resident in 2006. After residency, Allyson started a new MTM practice and clinical pharmacist position at the Fairview Maple Grove Medical Center and is currently providing MTM services at the Fairview Uptown Clinic. As the Operations Lead for MTM Allyson interfaces with Fairview’s MTM clients/payors and implements new programs for the MTM team. Allyson also serves as a preceptor for University of Minnesota APPE students. Allyson was named University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy Residency Preceptor of the Year for 2017-2018.  

Additional Preceptors

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Amanda Brummel, PharmD, BCACP  has been employed by Fairview Pharmacy Services since 1999 when she graduated from the University of Minnesota. While at Fairview, Amanda has built and practiced Medication Therapy Management (MTM) in multiple clinic locations, was the clinical supervisor for the MTM department, and the MTM Operations & Program Manager.  In Amanda’s current role as the Vice President, Clinical Pharmacy Services, she has responsibility for the MTM program, the anticoagulation program, and the clinical development and integration of ambulatory pharmacy services in the Fairview Health Network including transitions of care and quality outcome measurement.  She works closely with the Fairview Medical Group and the Fairview Network in our population health approach and new payer product development. Amanda is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of MN.  She teaches the elective course, “How to Build an MTM Practice” and also co-developed an on-line CE course on building an MTM practice. She has published multiple articles on MTM and pharmacy’s role in the care team.  She has chaired and served on multiple committees and is a current member of the Minnesota Pharmacists Association,the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA).

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Nicole Paterson, PharmD, BCPS is a Medication Therapy Management Practitioner at Fairview Pharmacy Services. Nicole graduated from The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy and completed an ASHP Accredited Pharmacy Practice Residency at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina. Nicole has been a Medication Therapy Management Provider since 1998 and has started MTM at 5 different M Health Fairview Clinics, including her current location at M Health Fairview Clinics - Eagan. She continues to participate in Primary Care Transformation and in the Diabetes and Cardiovascular Care Map work. Nicole serves as a preceptor for University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy APPE students. Nicole was named University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy Residency Preceptor of the Year for 2011-2012. 

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Heidi Burres, PharmD, BCACP  is a Medication Therapy Management Provider for Fairview Pharmacy Services. Heidi graduated with her PharmD degree in May 2010 from the University of Minnesota, Duluth campus. She started with the Fairview MTM program as an Ambulatory Care resident in 2010. Since completion of her residency, Heidi has started MTM practices at the Fairview Brooklyn Park and Fridley clinics. Heidi currently provides MTM services at the Edina clinic and is a supervisor for the MTM department. Heidi also serves as a preceptor for UMN APPE students and a MNPACC leader for pharmacy students.

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Michelle Wong, PharmD, BCACP has been a Medication Therapy Management Provider for M Health Fairview since 2018. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 2018, she completed her ambulatory care residency with M Health Fairview and now practices at the M Health Fairview Apple Valley clinic. She was involved with Primary Care Transformation when first started at the Eagan and Apple Valley clinics and continue to be involved in these projects. She also enjoys precepting for University of Minnesota APPE students.  

 

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Danielle Bender, PharmD, BCACP has been a Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Pharmacist for Fairview Pharmacy Services since 2018. After graduating from North Dakota State University in 2017, she completed a one-year ambulatory care residency through the University of Minnesota at Bethesda Clinic and Walgreens. Currently, Dani practices at the M Health Fairview Roselawn Clinic. Dani also serves as a preceptor for University of Minnesota APPE students. 

 

Picture of Ann M. Philbrick, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, BCACP

Ann M. Philbrick, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, BCACP is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Medical School, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She graduated in 2006 from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and completed a PGY1 and PGY2 residency in Ambulatory Care at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Upon finishing her residency, she joined the faculty at the College of Pharmacy and Bethesda Clinic. Dr Philbrick has a passion for making professional connections with patients and loves to impart this passion onto pharmacy students and residents as well as medical students, physician residents, and faculty physicians. Her teaching, research, and patient care activities focus on the role of a pharmacist in an interprofessional setting.  She is an active member in the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, where she has served in several leadership positions.

Picture of Ila Harris, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS

Ila Harris, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS has been a Medication Therapy Management (MTM) provider at M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda Family Medicine since 1998. She is also Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and is on the faculty at Woodwinds Family Medicine Residency Program. She received her BS Pharmacy (1991) and PharmD (1993) from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science and completed a specialty residency in Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. She was previously faculty at St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Ila has been a pharmacy residency preceptor for 13 years, for both the Bethesda Clinic/Walgreens and Pharmaceutical Care Leadership residency programs at the University of Minnesota Ambulatory Care/Postgraduate pharmacy residency program. She conducts practice-based research and has published numerous articles. She is active in the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) and has served on the Board of Regents. Ila has received the U of M College of Pharmacy Outstanding Preceptor award, the Medical School Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Faculty Teacher of the Year award and the Teacher of the Year award from St. Joseph’s Family Medicine Residency Program.

 

M Health Fairview is an award-winning, nonprofit health system providing exceptional care across the full spectrum of health care services. M Health Fairview is one of the most comprehensive and geographically accessible systems in the state, with 10 hospitals,including an academic medical centerand 60 clinics, — serving the greater Twin Cities metro, north-central Minnesota, and western Wisconsin. Our broad continuum includes primary care clinics, specialty clinics, senior living communities, retail and specialty pharmacies, pharmacy benefit management services, rehabilitation centers, counseling and home health care services, medical transportation, and an integrated provider network.