Highlights of the Cleveland Clinic Pharmacy Practice Model Summit

In November 2010, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) kicked off its Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI) with the PPMI Summit in Dallas, Texas. The PPMI is intended to provide direction for pharmacy leaders to advance the practice of health-system pharmacy within their institutions. The consensus recommendations of the PPMI Summit were published in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy and can be found on the ASHP website.1 The PPMI is timely for the profession, as it defines the pharmacist’s role in dealing with the challenges of health care reform, rising prescription drug costs, new technology, and complex drug therapy regimens. The pharmacy leadership at the Cleveland Clinic was inspired by the PPMI Summit and wanted to spread the inspiration to the more than 800 pharmacy employees of the institution’s integrated health system, which comprises 10 hospitals and 17 family health and ambulatory surgical centers, primarily located in northeastern Ohio, and other facilities in Weston, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.