Comprehensive medication review

Pharmacists have an important role in your care

Taking prescription medicines can be a challenge. There are a lot of details to understand. One member of your health care team — a pharmacist practitioner — can help you manage your medicines and your health. A pharmacist practitioner is doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) that is specially trained to provide patient care in the clinic setting.

Three Allina Medical Clinic locations (Coon Rapids, Woodbury and Richfield) offer a special clinic visit that lets you talk privately with a pharmacist practitioner about your medicines.

During the review, the pharmacist will:

• tell how safe your medicines are
• tell how well your medicines are working
• assess any needs or problems caused by your medicines
• create a care plan just for you
• give suggestions to your regular health care provider
• schedule a follow-up appointment (if needed)
• answer your questions.

Bring all of the medications you are taking. Include prescription, over-the-counter, vitamins, herbals and natural medicines. The pharmacist practitioner needs to know all of the medicines you are taking.

Also, bring a list of questions. For example, do you know what to do if you forget to take your diabetes pills, is there an herbal you want to start taking, or do you think your asthma inhaler isn’t working as well as it used to.

Allina pharmacist practitioners

Lindsey Pritchard, PharmD

Lindsey Pritchard is a pharmacist at both Allina Medical Clinic - Woodlake (Richfield) and Allina Medical Clinic - Woodbury. Lindsey is board certified in pharmacotherapy. She earned her degree at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy. Lindsey completed her pharmacy practice residency at Providence Health & Services and a primary care residency at Providence Physician Division. Her special interests are cardiovascular risk reduction and heart failure.

Beth Zerr, PharmD

Beth Zerr is a pharmacist at the Allina Medical Clinic - Coon Rapids. Beth went to the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy for her degree and completed her residency at Lake Region Healthcare/North Dakota State University in Fergus Falls, ND.

Beth is also a member of the Minnesota Pharmacist Association and the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists.