SAN FRANCISCO — Health Mart is hosting its second series of town hall meetings, “Pharmacy Quality Measures: Action Steps for Improvement.” The events will be held in 108 cities nationwide through early 2015.

Designed to help pharmacies recognize the importance of Five-Star Quality Ratings (as established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and to improve their store’s performance, the meetings provide a comprehensive review of the key medication-related quality measures that pharmacies have the most ability to impact.

The meetings will also show pharmacy owners how to benchmark their pharmacy’s performance and evaluate their progress and will enable attendees to leave with a plan based on their EQuIPP (Electronic Quality Improvement Platform for Plans and Pharmacies) data to improve quality measures specific to their pharmacy. Pharmacy owners, pharmacists and technicians can register for the meetings at HealthMartEvents.com.

“By attending the Health Mart Town Hall meetings, independent pharmacies can learn how to measure and improve their performance in support of Medicare Part D Star Ratings and gain credit for the quality care they provide,” said Health Mart president Steve Courtman. “Research has shown that improving patients’ medication adherence has a sizable impact on decreasing total health care costs. There is tremendous opportunity for pharmacists to be recognized for the outcomes they drive beyond dispensing.”

Health Mart has partnered with Pharmacy Quality Solutions (PQS) to provide franchisees access to the EQuIPP pharmacy performance data so they can understand their current performance on medication-related Part D Star Ratings measures.