There are a number of reasons why Akron Children’s Hospital decided, in 2019, to make the leap into specialty pharmacy. However, if one reason stood out, it was the long waits before prescribed specialty medications were being made available to its sick young patients.
“We knew that, on average, it could take two to three weeks for our patients to get started on specialty therapy,” said John Lepto, BSPharm, RPh, the director of pharmacy at the 290-bed pediatric