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Madison Pharmacy Associates Among First In America To Receive PCAB Accreditation
Madison Pharmacy Associates Co-Founder Marla Ahlgrimm Discusses the Significance of This Honor
MADISON, WI, January 06, 2012 /Pharmaceutical PR News/ -- Madison Pharmacy Associates was the first pharmacy in Wisconsin to achieve accreditation from the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board. According to Marla Ahlgrimm, who co-founded Madison Pharmacy Associates, this accreditation shows the public the commitment to excellence Madison Pharmacy Associates has always had.
"When we opened the doors of Madison Pharmacy Associates in 1982, we had a vision of what personalized healthcare for women should be-an integration of exacting pharmaceutical science, state-of-the-art laboratory technology, and the traditional values of listening and responding to a patient's individual needs," the former president of Madison Pharmacy Associates states. By earning this honor, Ahlgrimm and Madison Pharmacy Associates received acknowledgment that what they have been doing is indeed the right thing.
According to Madison Pharmacy Associates' Ahlgrimm, PCAB accreditation is given to pharmacies that meet a rigid set of standards. Madison Pharmacy Associates was required to go through PCAB's standard nine-month evaluation that included an onsite inspection. This designation put Madison Pharmacy Associates among an elite group of pharmacies in the U.S. to have this honor.
Marla Ahlgrimm co-founded Madison Pharmacy Associates after she discovered a need for attention to women's health issues. Madison Pharmacy Associates was the first pharmacy in the country to exclusively focus on treating and educating women. Proving that each woman needed unique, customized treatment, Ahlgrimm and her Madison Pharmacy Associates colleagues were able to treat thousands of patients with customized nutrition plans and low-dose hormone replacement therapy.
As co-founder of Madison Pharmacy Associates, Marla Ahlgrimm created compounds that are still used in hormone replacement therapies across the country today. Being at the forefront of this new healthcare field brought its own challenges, Ahlgrimm of Madison Pharmacy Associates recalls. Not only did Madison Pharmacy Associates have to navigate state regulations, she says, but they had to deal with creating treatments that did not yet exist.
Today, Ahlgrimm continues to work with PMS patients as well as women dealing with perimenopause and menopause. As the population of women changes, the needs of women change as well, and Ahlgrimm and her colleagues are creating new and inventive hormone replacement therapies to meet those needs.
PCAB accreditation is just one in a line of many achievements for Madison Pharmacy Associates and its parent company, Women's Health America. Ahlgrimm's Restore therapy has been adapted in practices across the country and even Canada. Restore combines bone marrow testing, hormone tests, individualized prescription therapy, and follow-up visits to test patients and monitor progress.
Formed by eight pharmacy organizations, the PCAB is a standards organization that seeks to ensure pharmacies uphold the commitment to quality and excellence that pharmacies like Madison Pharmacy Associates worked hard to achieve. More details about PCAB's accreditation process are available at its website, www.pcab.org.
Madison Pharmacy Associates was sold by Marla Ahlgrimm in 2011. Today, the former Madison Pharmacy Associates' owner is also the co-founder and President of Cyclin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The company sells proprietary products for the women's health market as well as ProCycle PMS and ProCycle Gold products. For more information, go online to www.cyclinpharma.com.
Madison Pharmacy Associates co-founder Marla Ahlgrimm has been a pioneer since the late 1970s, when she and a colleague began working to develop treatment options for premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Her work eventually led to the birth of Madison Pharmacy Associates, a practice solely devoted to the health needs of women.
Today, Ahlgrimm works with some of the same women she helped more than thirty years ago. But today, those patients are experiencing symptoms of perimenopause and menopause. Using natural hormone therapy, Ahlgrimm is able to further the work she began at Madison Pharmacy Associates, restoring health to women who are dealing with sometimes debilitating hormonal health issues.
Through Madison Pharmacy Associates, Marla Ahlgrimm launched PMS Access, a hotline where women across the country could speak to the experts at Madison Pharmacy Associates, one on one. Ahlgrimm has carried that belief in giving her patients personal attention into her current business, which furthers the work she began with Madison Pharmacy Associates.
While working with Madison Pharmacy Associates, Marla Ahlgrimm co-authored two books: The HRT Solution-Optimizing Your Hormone Potential and Self-Help for Premenstrual Syndrome. She and her colleagues at Madison Pharmacy Associates compounded various natural hormone prescriptions, customizing treatment to each patient. But Ahlgrimm's attention to detail didn't end there. From its inception, Madison Pharmacy Associates went beyond what pharmacies normally do, working with both physicians and patients to find the best treatment.
Madison Pharmacy Associates' Ahlgrimm also founded Women's Health America, which served the unique and complex health needs of women of all ages by providing access to current and accurate information and quality health products. Because of her work with women's health, Ahlgrimm has been regularly featured in magazines, newspapers, and television programs across the country. In addition to her media attention, the Madison Pharmacy Associates co-founder is also regularly asked to speak locally and nationally on women's health topics to both consumer and medical groups.
A 1978 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison Pharmacy Associates' Marla Ahlgrimm has a B.S. degree in Pharmacy. She has served on the board of directors of several organizations, including the United Way of Dane County and the UW Foundation. A member of the American Pharmacy Association and the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, Madison Pharmacy Associates' Ahlgrimm has also served on the State Task Force on Women and Depression. Among her many awards, the Madison Pharmacy Associates co-founder has most recently been named a distinguished University of Wisconsin alumni and won the "Woman's First" award from the Fund for Women in 2008.
Madison Pharmacy Associates' premenstrual syndrome and hormone therapy protocols are now used in medical programs across the country. Madison Pharmacy Associates co-founder Ahlgrimm has also developed unique hormone prescription dosage forms for hormone replacement therapy and specific hormone testing systems for women utilizing saliva and serum. In 2011, Marla Ahlgrimm sold Madison Pharmacy Associates. She is the co-founder and President of Cyclin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company that sells proprietary products developed by Marla for the women's health market as well as ProCycle PMS and ProCycle Gold nutritional supplements.
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