June 18, 2021 – Ascension Rx hosted a special ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this week for its new, $8 million Pharmacy Services Center in Austin, Texas.
The Ascension Rx Pharmacy Services Center is a new, multifaceted, 30,000-square-foot facility that serves as a specialty pharmacy, distribution center, and patient engagement hub for Ascension Rx sites across the U.S.
Ascension Rx is the pharmacy arm of Ascension, the nation’s largest Catholic health system. Ascension Rx functions as a high-touch clinical model centered on the patient-clinician relationship, offering specialty medication services, delivery, infusion therapy, and medication management.
The Pharmacy Services Center houses three pharmacies and one patient engagement center that will support patients across all of Ascension, the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic health system, with 146 hospitals and 2,600 sites of care across 19 states and the District of Columbia. Ascension Rx will have 40 pharmacists and 20 pharmacy technicians embedded in Ascension Medical Group clinics across the U.S. Ascension Rx also has 66 retail pharmacies with several hundred staff members.
Ascension says this new home base expands and centralizes Ascension Rx specialty pharmacy operations, enables high-volume home delivery and creates efficiencies in processing and patient support.
Within this facility, Ascension Rx will share community space and work in close collaboration with Ascension Connect, the central navigation hub for all patients across Ascension. Ascension Connect assists patients with access, scheduling and referrals, among other things, providing millions of solutions for patients each year, the company says.