The Waterfront Pharmacy, a forward-thinking community pharmacy in Jamestown, Dunkirk, and South Dayton, and part of the nonprofit community health center, The Chautauqua Center, recently added PakMyMeds for patients taking multiple prescriptions.

This is a new service designed to prevent dangerous medication errors within the vulnerable populations the Waterfront Pharmacy serves. PakMyMeds removes the guesswork for patients, by allowing the pharmacy to pre-sort and package patient medications, labeling each dose by day, date and time. The convenient, easy-to-open packaging makes taking prescribed medications more straightforward, and hassle-free.

PakMyMeds allows for greater independence in care-at-home situations, and can accommodate prescriptions, OTC meds, and even supplements. Studies show that more than half of patients on multiple medications do not take their medications correctly. Medication non-adherence leads to 125,000 preventable deaths and more than $500 billion in avoidable healthcare costs each year.

“PakMyMeds eliminates the confusion and inconvenience for patients taking a large number of daily medications,” said Pharmacy Director Megan Reynolds. “The date-and-time stamped pouches mean no more pill sorting and fewer errors. This can mean life-changing improvements in patient health and peace of mind for family members caring for their loved ones. There is much less worry about missed doses or accidentally taking more medication than directed.”

The Waterfront Pharmacy offers the PakMyMeds service at no charge and will even deliver the medication to customers for free.

With PakMyMeds, taking medications, on-the-go is especially simple – in just seconds, patients can tear off the medication pouches they’ll need. This can help busy patients to continue to live more independently.

The PakMyMeds service is made possible by Waterfront Pharmacy’s installation of the RapidPakRx™, a pharmacy robot designed and manufactured in the United States. With 23 vision systems and three layers of integrated machine vision pill detection, verification, and inspection, RapidPakRx can provide a high volume of multi-med pouches with unparalleled accuracy and speed, at a very low cost.

PakMyMeds is currently available. To learn more and to find out if the service is right for you, contact your pharmacist at the general pharmacy number at (716) 705-6153.

“With PakMyMeds our patients will become more adherent with less hassle and less worry, which means improved wellness overall,” Reynolds said.