Video: Go inside Accredo’s clean rooms as Operations Senior Director David Julian and Clean Room Manager Jana Maartmann discuss the specialized environments, expert teams, and rigorous quality standards required to prepare complex medications for patients.
Why this matters
- Accredo is expanding its clean room footprint to support more patients as demand for specialty therapies continues to rise.
- Clean rooms make it possible to safely prepare certain specialty therapies that require precise and rigorous quality controls.
- Patients living with serious and complex conditions often depend on these therapies to manage their health.
- Accredo’s clean room locations help support continuity of care and reliable access by providing the flexibility to prepare and distribute therapies in multiple locations.
Specialty medications continue to grow in complexity, and require precise preparation and handling, as well as pharmacy expertise, before they can be delivered to a patient. Evernorth’s Accredo Specialty Pharmacy is expanding its clean room footprint to help meet those needs for patients nationwide and support the growing number of complex therapies coming to the market.
Accredo is adding a new clean room at its Warrendale, Pennsylvania, care delivery site, expanding its specialty pharmacy capabilities designed to support patients, prescribers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. The facility will be the fifth clean room across Evernorth’s care delivery footprint.
Accredo’s newest clean room will also enable specially trained pharmacists to compound certain cancer treatments and other highly complex specialty therapies that contain materials that require precise handling in a sterile, negative-pressure environment. These medications are vital to the patients who need them.
The new Warrendale clean room is one of several investments Accredo is making to support patients who rely on specialty therapies. The company is also enhancing its specialty distribution network to help improve access to time-sensitive treatments. Once fully implemented, 90% of Accredo patients are expected to be within a 1-day or same-day ground shipping radius of an Evernorth care delivery site.
“For patients who rely on complex specialty medications, access and timing matter,” said Matt Perlberg, president of Evernorth Health Services Pharmacy and Care Delivery and executive vice president of Innovation for The Cigna Group. “Our investment in a fifth clean room, new and expanded Accredo pharmacy locations, and our enhanced specialty distribution network will create capacity for millions of new prescriptions ahead of growing demand. These investments strengthen our ability to help patients access the therapies they depend on where and when they need them, while helping support continuity of care.”
To learn more about clean rooms, what they do, and how they help patients access complex specialty therapies, read our Q&A with David Julian, operations senior director for Accredo, who oversees its clean rooms across the country.
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