Madison Pharmacy Associates Among First in America to Receive PCAB Accreditation
Madison Pharmacy Associates Co-Founder Marla Ahlgrimm Discusses the Significance of This Honor.
- Madison, WI (1888PressRelease) January 05, 2012 - Madison Pharmacy Associates was the first pharmacy in Wisconsin to achieve accreditation from the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board. According to Marla Ahlgrimm, who co-founded Madison Pharmacy Associates, this accreditation shows the public the commitment to excellence Madison Pharmacy Associates has always had.
"When we opened the doors of Madison Pharmacy Associates in 1982, we had a vision of what personalized healthcare for women should be-an integration of exacting pharmaceutical science, state-of-the-art laboratory technology, and the traditional values of listening and responding to a patient's individual needs," the former president of Madison Pharmacy Associates states. By earning this honor, Ahlgrimm and Madison Pharmacy Associates received acknowledgment that what they have been doing is indeed the right thing.
According to Madison Pharmacy Associates' Ahlgrimm, PCAB accreditation is given to pharmacies that meet a rigid set of standards. Madison Pharmacy Associates was required to go through PCAB's standard nine-month evaluation that included an onsite inspection. This designation put Madison Pharmacy Associates among an elite group of pharmacies in the U.S. to have this honor.
Marla Ahlgrimm co-founded Madison Pharmacy Associates after she discovered a need for attention to women's health issues. Madison Pharmacy Associates was the first pharmacy in the country to exclusively focus on treating and educating women. Proving that each woman needed unique, customized treatment, Ahlgrimm and her Madison Pharmacy Associates colleagues were able to treat thousands of patients with customized nutrition plans and low-dose hormone replacement therapy.
As co-founder of Madison Pharmacy Associates, Marla Ahlgrimm created compounds that are still used in hormone replacement therapies across the country today. Being at the forefront of this new healthcare field brought its own challenges, Ahlgrimm of Madison Pharmacy Associates recalls. Not only did Madison Pharmacy Associates have to navigate state regulations, she says, but they had to deal with creating treatments that did not yet exist.
Today, Ahlgrimm continues to work with PMS patients as well as women dealing with perimenopause and menopause. As the population of women changes, the needs of women change as well, and Ahlgrimm and her colleagues are creating new and inventive hormone replacement therapies to meet those needs.
PCAB accreditation is just one in a line of many achievements for Madison Pharmacy Associates and its parent company, Women's Health America. Ahlgrimm's Restore® therapy has been adapted in practices across the country and even Canada. Restore® combines bone marrow testing, hormone tests, individualized prescription therapy, and follow-up visits to test patients and monitor progress.
Formed by eight pharmacy organizations, the PCAB is a standards organization that seeks to ensure pharmacies uphold the commitment to quality and excellence that pharmacies like Madison Pharmacy Associates worked hard to achieve. More details about PCAB's accreditation process are available at its website, www.pcab.org.
Madison Pharmacy Associates was sold by Marla Ahlgrimm in 2011. Today, the former Madison Pharmacy Associates' owner is also the co-founder and President of Cyclin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The company sells proprietary products for the women's health market as well as ProCycle PMS and ProCycle Gold products. For more information, go online to www.cyclinpharma.com.
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