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Latest News

• Join Us for the Next Legislative Day on February 3rd!
• Immediate Release: Improving Patient and Health System Outcomes through Advanced Pharmacy Practice - A Report to the U.S. Surgeon General 2011
• Breaking News: FDA Warns of Opioid Drug Mix-Up
• Regence Blue Shield Leaving WA Medicaid Market
• Pharmacy Mourns the Loss of UW Dean Emeritus Sid Nelson
• 2011 WSPA Award Winners Announced
• FDA: Don't Use Jet Injectors for Inactivated Influenza
• Handling Hazardous Drugs Law: Unintended Ramifications?
• New WSPA PMP and Meth Precursor Tracking Resource Centers
• $1.4B Budget Shortfall - Proposed Cuts Include Medicaid Prescription Coverage
• DEA Finally Offers Clarification on CII Prescriptions - Missing Information

Our Mission

WSPA Mission: The Washington State Pharmacy Association exists to advocate on behalf of its members to ensure pharmacy professionals are recognized, engaged and valued as essential to the healthcare team.

WSPA Vision: The vision of the Washington State Pharmacy Association is to ensure everyone understands and recognizes the importance of the profession of pharmacy.

WSPA Strategic Plan 2011-14

Pharmacy Facts

In the last quarter century, pharmacy has expanded its role within the health care delivery system from a profession focusing on preparation and dispensing of medications to patients to one in which pharmacists provide a wide range of patient-oriented services to maximize the medicine's effectiveness. Medicines today have great power to heal and to improve the quality of life for millions of Americans. But medicines also may do serious harm if not taken correctly. This is where the role of the pharmacist is most important. You should choose your pharmacist as carefully as you choose a physician.