ASHP Chapter Earns 2nd National Award

This award is bestowed upon ASHP chapters for excellence in:
promoting membership in local, state, and national health-system organizations;
stimulating interest in health-system pharmacy careers; and
encouraging career development and professionalism among students aspiring to careers in health-system pharmacy.
Student societies must complete the required activities each year to receive the annual recognition.

This official recognition serves as the completion of the "triad" relationship between ASHP, the ASHP state affiliate organization, and the SSHP, as well as provides a direct relationship between ASHP and the SSHP.ASHP encourages developing SSHPs to become a chapter or affiliate of the ASHP state affiliate organization.

For more than 60 years, ASHP has helped pharmacists who practice in hospitals and health systems improve medication use and enhance patient safety. The Society's 35,000 members include pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who practice in inpatient, outpatient, home-care, and long-term-care settings, as well as pharmacy students. For more information about the wide array of ASHP activities and the many ways in which pharmacists help people make the best use of medicines, visit ASHP's Web site, www.ashp.org, or its consumer Web site, www.SafeMedication.com.