UKCOP Students Initiate Letter Writing Campaign to Congress
The University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy APhA–ASP Chapter is conducting a letter writing drive to encourage Members of Congress to support the provider status legislation. The chapter has generated 420 letters as a result of the campaign, and will try to get even more letters, according to Kyle Bryan, Policy Vice President for the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy Chapter.
Despite surpassing the necessary 218 votes to pass legislation in the House of Representatives, the Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act—H.R. 592—needs to continue to build bipartisan support for pharmacist provider status. There are currently 236 House cosponsors and 49 cosponsors of the companion legislation in the U.S. Senate. Your continued support is an essential part of the efforts to achieve provider status, and APhA—on behalf of all pharmacists—thank you for your support. Visit PharmacistsProvideCare.com and click “Take Action” to do your part!
This article originally appeared in an email update from Tom Menighan, CEO of APhA.
We wish to remember and honor those who inhabited this Commonwealth before the arrival of the Europeans. Briefly occupying these lands were the Osage, Wyndott tribe, and Miami peoples. The Adena and Hopewell peoples, who are recognized by the naming of the time period in which they resided here, were here more permanently. Some of their mounds remain in the Lexington area, including at UK’s Adena Park.
In more recent years, the Cherokee occupied southeast Kentucky, the Yuchi southwest Kentucky, the Chickasaw extreme western Kentucky and the Shawnee central Kentucky including what is now the city of Lexington. The Shawnee left when colonization pushed through the Appalachian Mountains. Lower Shawnee Town ceremonial grounds are still visible in Greenup County.
We honor the first inhabitants who were here, respect their culture, and acknowledge the presence of their descendants who are here today in all walks of life including fellow pharmacists and healthcare professionals.