Newly Eligible 340B Hospitals Advised to Apply Early
OPA Announces July 28 Webinar on 340B Enrollment for New Hospital Types
Emotions Surface During 340B Conference Session on Orphan Drugs
Preliminary Data Show 9.4% Decline in 340B Prices
OPA Warned BMS Against Offsetting Repayments to Providers
Enrollment for New Categories of 340B Providers to Begin Aug. 2
PSSC Announces New "Peer to Peer" Network
Rx School Dean Calls for Pharmacists to Fill Some Roles of M.D.s
Standing-Room Only at Introduction to 340B Session
House Votes to Lift 340B Orphan Drug Prohibition for Children's Hospitals
Drug Firms Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Santa Clara 340B Case
Multiple Contract Pharmacy Guidelines Are Drawing Considerable Interest
Mitchell and Burch to Receive 340B Coalition's Lifetime Achievement Award
Sebelius Pledges to Provide an Extra $25 Million for AIDS Assistance
SNHPA Expresses Condolences to Friend of Safety-Net Hospital Community
House Approves AMP Clarification in Supplemental War Funding Bill
Medicines Company Offers Retroactive Discounts on Angiomax and Cleviprex
July 9, 2010 - It is with great sorrow that Safety Net Hospitals for Pharmaceutical Access (SNHPA), the publisher of the Drug Discount Monitor, reports the death of its close friend, Fred Metschulat, assistant director of business operations for the University of Maryland Medical Center Pharmacies (UMMC) for the last eight years.
Fred passed away on July 6 following a struggle with a heart condition.
Fred was a strong proponent of the 340B program and worked tirelessly to educate others within his health system and throughout the nation on how to implement this important program. "His work not only increased access to much needed pharmaceutical care but helped reduce costs of medications by millions of dollars to a health system serving a very large low-income population," said SNHPA Executive Director Ted Slafsky. Fred was also a strong advocate for SNHPA's various legislative and regulatory efforts and a regular and avid attendee at 340B Coalition conferences. He also provided valuable guidance to SNHPA and its members on many pharmacy related topics.
In communicating Fred's death to hospital staff, Mark Summerfield, UMMC pharmacy director, said: "To say that Fred was a friend, colleague, and mentor of the highest order is an understatement. To say that Fred was instrumental over the last eight years in building our pharmacy is an understatement. To say that Fred will be missed with pain and emptiness and sorrow is an understatement."
Friends may call at the Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Rd., in the Baltimore, Md., suburb of Towson (Beltway exit 26A) on Sunday, July 11, between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. and between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held Monday, July 12, at 10 a.m. at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 1108 Providence Road, Towson, MD. Interment will be at the Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens on East Padonia Road in Lutherville-Timonium, Md.
Condolences may be communicated to Fred's family via his daughter Nikki (Nicole) Strong, senior operations manager for ambulatory services at UMMC, at nstrong@umm.edu or (410) 328-3619 or via the Ruck Towson Funeral Home online Legacy Book.
