AHP Products and Services Support the Critical Needs of Pharmacy

Patient safety is a critical issue for health systems. As a result, many health systems seek bar coded products to dispense to patients. Bar coded products used in conjunction with bar code medication administration (BCMA) systems, automate the “five rights.” American Health Packaging supports this health systems’ priority with its growing line of pre-packaged unit dose products.

Purchasing pre-packaged unit dose benefits the hospital in other ways too. It allows the hospital to avoid expensive capital equipment and additional staff associated with in-house packaging tasks. It also decreases liability risks associated with errors in packaging. AHP operates in a cGMP compliant facility which ensures that the product’s lot number, NDC and expiration date are recorded correctly and legibly.

Our line of unit dose products has grown substantially in the past two years. We now feature nearly 300 SKUs across all of the major therapeutic classes. Many of our products are industry exclusives - available only through AHP. These "difficult-to-find" products are popular with hospital wishing to minimize in-house packaging tasks.

To fully support bedside scanning automation, our products are bar coded to the dose level. And, as an added safety feature our packages feature color-coded labels with “tall man” lettering to best distinguish them on the pharmacy shelf. We take safety as seriously as our customers do and work to ensure it “Every Step of the Way.”

AHP Group is an integrated company that provides the Institutional Healthcare and Pharmaceutical market with SAFE, SECURE, COST EFFECTIVE packaging solutions through its diverse and national packaging centers. Our focus is in providing pharmaceutical grade packaging solutions, along with flexible supply channel options to offer the Healthcare industry multiple solutions while understanding that each facility’s needs are different. The AHP Resource Center accomplishes this by using a consortium of packaging centers strategically located throughout the US. Most important, our Pharma and Institutional Healthcare operational expertise enables us to provide you qualitative solutions without limitations.

SERVICES
Packaging Services, Our state of the art pharmaceutical grade packaging centers can provided POC bar coded packaging for RX, OTC and nutritional products, including the following:

• C-II through C-V
• Antibiotic packaging
• Oral Solids, Oral Liquids, Oral Syringes
• Overwrap
• Non-sterile Powder (from 3 grams to 30 grams) pouches

Our operational excellence is achieved through unsurpassed pharmaceutical grade, cGMP’s and SOP‘s.

AHP Group: an integrated Pharmaceutical Resource and Packaging Solutions Center

Your Pharmacy Source for Dispensing Solutions

Providing Custom Pharmaceutical Dispensing Solutions For Over 25 Years

MPNS was founded in 1982 by 2007 Bowl of Hygeia award winner Richard Reeves in order to provide pharmacies a user-friendly solution to regulatory changes in the long term care industry. The solution MPNS brought to the table was providing long term care pharmacies FDA compliant and cGMP adhering repackaged unit dose medications in a universal format from a centralized closed door pharmacy.

This is still the commitment at MPNS as well as new solutions for new regulatory issues, systems integration and workflow efficiencies as well as the most important function of enhancing patient safety. As healthcare continues to evolve MPNS is dedicated to providing solutions that evolve as well and tailor themselves to various individual pharmacy needs.

Centrally located in the heart of Tennessee, MPNS is within 750 miles of 75% of all major markets in the U.S. This enables MPNS to provide customers with fast turnaround on products while absorbing shipping costs at standard rates.

MPNS is registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as well as the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and complies with all current Good Manufacturing Practices by maintaining a stringent regulatory and quality control program.

Products

Unit Dose medications delivered to your pharmacy ready to dispense. Each dose is reclaimable to stock, labeled according to FDA guidelines, and all barcoded in a Class "A" package. Barcoding that can be tailored to your bedside error checking system and inventory control software.

Point of Care dispensing offers customized packaging solutions for healthcare providers to dispense directly to the patient. Offices such as same day surgery clinics, dental practices, walk-in clinics, and urgent care facilities, as well as others can receive FDA compliant packaged and labeled medications ready to dispense. Practices can use these dispensing applications to bring in additional revenue while enhancing patient relationships in a convenient and efficient manner.

Barcode readable packaging tailored to your specific needs which integrate with inventory, patient record and billing/payment software systems.

Punch Cards delivered to your pharmacy ready to dispense. Each heat sealed card can be customized to fit your pharmacy's various quantity needs compliancy labeled with barcode applied for inventory, patient record and billing/payment software.

Medical Packaging Inc. (MPI) is one of the leading manufacturers of unit-dose packaging solutions with over 35+ years of experience in providing packaging solutions to acute care and long-term care pharmacies, repackaging and specialty markets. MPI continually stays abreast of the ever-changing packaging needs of the pharmacist and develops the solutions that provide the latest technology and compliance to drug packaging guidelines. Additionally, MPI’s unit-dose packaging solutions are uniquely positioned to assist the long-term care (LTC) and extended care (EC) pharmacy in transitioning to the shorter cycle dispensing model recently mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This mandate, which was announced on November 22, 2010, will require the dispensing of medication in cycles of seven (7) days or less instead of the thirty (30) day model traditionally used in these care settings and will support nation-wide efforts to reduce medication waste.

MPI’s suite of pharmacy packaging solutions include state-of-the-art, affordable packaging systems to meet the bar coding, unit dose, and packaging needs of every type of pharmacy. MPI offers packaging solutions for oral solids, liquids, overwrapping and labeling systems, which are available either on an individual basis, a multi-product basis, or as a total solution dependent on the specific packaging requirements of each pharmacy. Coupled with MPI’s exclusive Pak-EDGE™ UD Barcode Labeling Software with access to First DataBank™ drug image and database library, MPI’s pharmacy packaging solutions assist pharmacies with Bedside Point of Care (BPOC) and Bar Coded Medication Administration (BCMA) initiatives.

MPI offers three (3) types of packaging solutions for oral solids. The Auto-Print™ II, which packages sixty (60) packages per minute (ppm), and the Auto-Print™ Express 90, which packages ninety (90) packages per minute (ppm), can produce either a 2” standard or 1.5” custom unit dose package, and the Auto-Print™ Punch Cut Machine (PCM), which produces a 2.5” unit dose package, packages thirty (30) packages per minute (ppm) and features a punched hole in the upper half of the package for use in conjunction with centralized, robotic systems. MPI’s oral solid packaging systems can also be customized to accommodate canister technology available with fully automated packaging solutions utilizing canister technology.

MPI’s offers the Fluidose™ Series 5 packaging solution for oral liquids providing the capability to package bulk liquid medication to unit dose. This high quality, affordable bar coding packaging system for oral liquids allows a pharmacy to increase their packaging speed to up to fifteen (15) packages per minute (ppm) and is offered with two (2) filling options, either the Syringe Pump or optional Baxa® pump to provide a single, bar coded liquid unit dose package to the bedside. An automatic low fluid detection feature is built into the machine controls which pauses liquid packaging when fluid level reaches a level preset by the pharmacy technician. Built-in purge feature cancels the bar code label and automatically clears the system for the next packaging job.

For your ancillary packaging needs, MPI offers two (2) types of overwrapping systems, the Auto-Print™ Bagging System and the Auto-Print™ Max Bagger for Robot Ready packaging, and the Pharmacy Accessory Label Printer labeling system to provide any pharmacy with the appropriate packaging or labeling solution for their parenteral medications.

For more information about the products and services provided by Medical Packaging Inc., please visit the links provided below.

The Medi-Dose® Group, known for its innovative solid and liquid oral unit dose packaging systems, has always had deep roots---family roots. This is not surprising since Medi-Dose began as a small family business. Medi-Dose was founded in 1971 when Milton Braverman, a former pharmaceutical company Territory Manager, formed his own company.

While developing Medi-Dose, we were often asked for other products. "Hey… why don't you have... ?" "Yo, I need... Can you get it for me?" So, we started EPS®, Inc. We were asked about liquid packaging to complement our solid oral systems. So, we developed TampAlerT®. We were asked about IV preparation. So we developed a line of IV additive disposable accessories. Filters? Yes! Tapes & Labels? Done! Trays, totes and bins? You got it! Bags? Absolutely! And that is how the EPS product line grew to what it is today.

Medication packaged and dispensed in syringes, ampules, tubing, suppositories and odd shaped bottles often pose unique labeling challenges for pharmacists and nurses. Conventionally shaped labels often prove inadequate for adhering to irregular shapes. Additionally, the same vital labeling that's placed on the medication being dispensed needs to be recorded on the original medication bottle or package as well as the patient record.

MILT® Makes It Easy!
Medi-Dose Information labeling Technology

MILT® the dynamic new unit dose labeling software for the Medi-Dose® and EPS LiquidDose® packaging systems, offers innovative bar coding, increased security and enhanced medication identification awareness - all for a surprisingly affordable price. Using advanced technology, MILT® by Medi-Dose® makes it easy to achieve optimum accurate, protection and performance for all your solid and liquid unit dose syringe and ampule labeling needs.