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2019 Greeting & Seven Ways to get MORE out of your ICHP membership in 2019

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Greetings ICHP Member:

The New Year is already a month old and we would like to thank you for your membership in ICHP – a membership that we think will prove very valuable to you in 2019! We also want to highlight 7 ways to get more from your ICHP membership.

The more you use your membership, the more valuable it becomes. You can use your membership to connect with other members, take on small tasks to help ICHP, volunteer to serve on a division, committee or network, use the resources members and staff have created on the ichpnet.org website, participate in outstanding educational offerings and take part in our online social media: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram!

In 2017 the Illinois Pharmacy Practice Act was supposed to sunset, which means it should have been reviewed and renewed by the Illinois General Assembly and the Governor. That would have given the profession a chance to update and revise it to better reflect today’s and tomorrow’s practice of pharmacy. Unfortunately, a Chicago Tribune investigation in 2016 turned the tables on the profession, putting pharmacy practice in Illinois under the microscope and resulted in the creation of a Statewide Task Force that is now in the process of publicly recrafting the Practice Act through the end of August. Fortunately, ICHP will play a major role in the process and you can join that process by watching your emails and other communications from ICHP and developing a strong relationship with your own State legislators. If advocacy is your thing or at least peaks your interest, this is the year to get involved with all of ICHP’s advocacy efforts!

ICHP always needs a strong cadre of dedicated volunteers. It’s really easy to jump in and start serving ICHP and the profession. Through monthly conference calls as a member of an ICHP division, committee or network, making shorter term commitments on an educational meeting planning committee (like the Spring and Annual Meetings), as a local affiliate officer, student chapter officer or member of the ICHP Board of Directors. You can make a difference for pharmacy while building your leadership skills and your professional network.

We sincerely hope that you will review these 7 ways and get a bigger bang for your ICHP membership buck! You owe it to yourself and we owe it to you!

Sincerely,

Noelle Chapman, ICHP President

Scott A. Meyers, ICHP Executive Vice President