Owatonna

Mayo Clinic Health System Owatonna – Mayo Clinic Health System Owatonna is an outpatient clinic that contains multiple specialties including Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Urgent Care, Cardiology, Endocrinology and many more. There are over 30 primary care providers practicing at the Mayo Clinic Health System Owatonna plus an additional 50 specialty providers.
The Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacy Services main focus is providing Medication Management Services through comprehensive medication review, pharmacogenomic interpretation, and chronic disease management through face to face and telehealth encounters. In addition to supporting the healthcare team by answering drug information questions, conducting chart reviews and providing pharmacotherapy lectures for medical staff. 

Sterling Pharmacy – Sterling Pharmacy is a family owned and operated independent community pharmacy representing Owatonna since 1975. Our company has grown to include 13 community pharmacies across Southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa, 4 Long Term Care Pharmacies, and 1 Specialty Pharmacy.  Our desire is to empower patients while providing the utmost care and experience by being the go-to pharmacy of the community. Our mission of building healthier lives through caring relationships guides our interactions with patients and connects us to our communities. Our focus is to provide the independent community pharmacy experience; medication/disease state education, medication therapy management, immunizations, and other enhanced pharmacy services to improve our patients’ health and outcomes.  

Allina Health - Our clinics, hospitals and additional care services are dedicated to meeting the lifelong healthcare needs of communities throughout Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. In 2014, our healthcare team provided services that included: 108,124 inpatient hospital admissions; over 320,000 emergency care visits; 3.5 million clinic visits; 222,811 home health visits; 114,405 hospice visits; 894,198 retail pharmacy prescriptions filled and over 95,000 inpatient and outpatient surgeries.

OUR MISSION We serve our communities by providing exceptional care, as we prevent illness, restore health and provide comfort to all who entrust us with their care.

OUR VISION We will: put the patient first; Make a difference in people's lives by providing exceptional care and service; Create a healing environment where passionate people thrive and excel; and Lead collaborative efforts that solve our community's health care challenges.

John Deranek, PharmD (Lead Preceptor, Sterling Pharmacy) - Graduated from University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy 2005 and helped open CVS Pharmacies in the Twin Cities market where he opened and managed multiple locations across the area. He then moved to HCMC outpatient pharmacy where he worked up to managing the Outpatient Community Pharmacies across HCMC. He has been Pharmacy Manager with Sterling Pharmacy in Owatonna since 2016 where he resides with his family.

Kimberly Kosloski Tarpenning, PharmD, BCACP (Supporting Preceptor, Mayo Clinic Health System Owatonna) - Kimberly Kosloski Tarpenning, PharmD, BCACP is a primary care ambulatory care pharmacist at Mayo Clinic. After graduating from University of Minnesota – College of Pharmacy she completed a PGY1 Ambulatory Care residency at Goodrich Pharmacy/HealthPartners Clinic through the University of Minnesota - College of Pharmacy residency program. After residency, Dr. Kosloski Tarpenning worked for University of Utah Health as an ambulatory care pharmacist. During the 3 years in Utah, Dr. Kosloski Tarpenning successfully set up 3 different ambulatory care practices in various outpatient clinics. She was then recruited by the Mayo Clinic in 2015 to set-up an ambulatory care practice at their Owatonna clinic in southern Minnesota.

William Clapp, PharmD (Supporting Preceptor, Owatonna Hospital, part of Allina Health) - William Clapp, PharmD, BCPS, is an Inpatient and Infusion Pharmacist at Allina Health. Dr. Clapp graduated from the University of Minnesota- College of Pharmacy and began his career as a hospital pharmacist at Mayo Clinic Health System- Austin.

Sterling Pharmacy (Retail APPE: 5 weeks)

• Description : Students will have opportunities to participate in patient centered dispensing roles as well as patient care activities as part of mandatory rotation activities. Students will also be required to participate in several enhanced pharmacy services as identified by the Preceptor/Student team. Students will be working directly with the preceptor either in the preceptor’s work area or in an adjacent work area in the pharmacy. Students will be participating in the pharmacy’s immunization program, the medication therapy management program, and in pharmacy dispensing functions. There will be additional opportunities for other enhanced pharmacy services.
• Interprofessional experiences : Weekly and quarterly staff meetings. Community events. Chamber Activities. Owatonna Public Policy meetings. City Council meetings
• Patient Population Demographics: Patients aged 0 to 100, with and without disabilities. Vaccination ages 3yo and up as able to per Board of Pharmacy rules and regulations
• Onsite Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday 8:30am to 7pm, Saturday 9am – 3pm
• Dress Code: Business Casual
• Additional Information: Sterling Owatonna is a MN Vaccine for Children site.

Mayo Clinic Health System Owatonna (Ambulatory Care APPE: 10 weeks – the extended rotation does include one of the elective blocks)

• Description (including unique services, typical daily activities, student projects)
  • The Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacy Services main focus is providing Medication Management Services through comprehensive medication review, pharmacogenomic interpretation, and chronic disease management through face to face and telehealth encounters. In addition to supporting the healthcare team by answering drug information questions, conducting chart reviews, medication counseling, device education and providing pharmacotherapy lectures for medical staff.  By the end of rotation, students are expected to be able to apply pharmacotherapeutic and patient assessment principals to real-life ambulatory patient cases. The majority of the student’s learning experiences will be hands-on through patient contact. Students will learn to work in an integrated team and develop inter-professional communication skills. Daily activities include patient encounters including documentation, answering drug information questions, and working with healthcare team members. Additional activities attending assigned topic discussions or journal clubs with other learners within Mayo Clinic and completing one medication based presentation.
  • My goal as a preceptor is to facilitate the student’s learning by providing tailored experiences based on the student’s learning needs and interests.
• Interprofessional experiences
  • Weekly huddles, provider meetings, daily curbside consults
• Onsite Hours
  • Monday-Friday from 8:00am-4:30pm
  • Twice per month students may be asked to present at clinic from 6:30am-1:30pm to meet with dialysis patients
  • Dress Code
    • Professional attire, name tag required
    • White coat optional
  • Additional Information

Owatonna Hospital (Acute Care APPE: 5 weeks, Institutional APPE: 5 weeks)

• Description (including unique services, typical daily activities, student projects) Students will be working directly with the preceptor either in the preceptor's work area or in one of the patient care areas. Students will participate in rounds with the hospitalists, address Rx Consults,  participate in the medication reconciliation process and partake in a daily safety meeting.
  • Interprofessional experiences: Daily interprofessional team rounds, Grand Rounds, Clinical Pearls, Pharmacy Department meetings, shadow nursing, clinical office shared with hospitalists.
  • Onsite Hours Monday-Friday from 7:00am-3:30pm
  • Dress Code: Business casual with white coat and closed toed shoes
• Elective Information - Student will pick either a Patient Care elective or a Non-patient Care elective then work with preceptors to develop their ideal elective using opportunities.
• Patient Care Elective: 5 weeks
  • Description: Student will be allowed to develop their own patient care elective based on the opportunities listed below. As part of the Patient Care elective the student will be expected to spend at minimum 3 weeks in patient care opportunities, which include:
    • Anticoagulation  (onsite in Owatonna/virtual) - work in the anticoagulation clinic for SEMN and Rochester regions including warfarin dosing and DOAC reviews; partial time onsite in Owatonna, partial time virtual
    • Oncology (onsite in Owatonna/virtual) - work closely with cancer patients who receive oral or IV chemotherapy and collaborate with their medical oncology/hematology providers to meet the needs of my patients. Not only is patient education an important part of my role, but I also help verify and determine the effectiveness, safety and tolerance patients may experience during medication therapy; partial time onsite at different locations in SEMN, partial time virtual
  • Antimicrobial  (virtual) -  work with the ambulatory ID team to manage patients on outpatient IV or complex oral antimicrobial therapy, and patients living with HIV.  Primary activities include late resulting culture review, monitoring and evaluation of lab results, management of patient reported adverse drug events, patient counseling on antimicrobial therapy, and optimization of drug therapy (dosing, selection of preferred regimens, etc).
    • Long Term Care Pharmacy -
    • Specialty Clinical Pharmacy practice (requires travel to Rochester) - various different outpatient clinical pharmacy practices are available to shadow in Rochester including but not limited to transplant, GI, Cardio, Pediatric etc.
  • Students will also have an opportunity to select from non-patient care opportunities when developing elective, which include:
    • Administrative (Sterling)
    • Community involvement - work with local community leaders to assist with community events, educational opportunities, etc.
  • Interprofessional experiences: Varies based on selections for rotation
  • Onsite Hours: Varies based on selections for rotation
  • Dress Code: Varies based on selections for rotation
• Non-patient Care Elective: 5 weeks
  • Description: Student will be allowed to develop their own non-patient care elective based on the opportunities listed below. As part of the non-patient care elective the student will be expected to spend at minimum 3 weeks in non-patient care opportunities, which include:
    • Administrative (Sterling)
    • Community involvement - work with local community leaders to assist with community events, educational opportunities, etc.
  • Students will also have an opportunity to select from patient care opportunities when developing elective, which include:
    • Anticoagulation  (onsite in Owatonna/virtual) - work in the anticoagulation clinic for SEMN and Rochester regions including warfarin dosing and DOAC reviews; partial time onsite in Owatonna, partial time virtual
    • Oncology (onsite in Owatonna/virtual) - work closely with cancer patients who receive oral or IV chemotherapy and collaborate with their medical oncology/hematology providers to meet the needs of my patients. Not only is patient education an important part of my role, but I also help verify and determine the effectiveness, safety and tolerance patients may experience during medication therapy; partial time onsite at different locations in SEMN, partial time virtual
    • Antimicrobial  (virtual) -  work with the ambulatory ID team to manage patients on outpatient IV or complex oral antimicrobial therapy, and patients living with HIV.  Primary activities include late resulting culture review, monitoring and evaluation of lab results, management of patient reported adverse drug events, patient counseling on antimicrobial therapy, and optimization of drug therapy (dosing, selection of preferred regimens, etc).
    • Long Term Care Pharmacy -
    • Specialty Clinical Pharmacy practice (requires travel to Rochester) - various different outpatient clinical pharmacy practices are available to shadow in Rochester including but not limited to transplant, GI, Cardio, Pediatric etc.
    • Interprofessional experiences: Varies based on selections for rotation
    • Onsite Hours: Varies based on selections for rotation
    • Dress Code: Varies based on selections for rotation
       

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