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Quality
Our clinical, operations and customer teams go above and beyond the standard of practice, providing you with education and support to ensure better health outcomes together.
Safety
Patient safety is a Medical Pharmacies priority; achieved through research, clinical and operational reviews, and process improvement initiatives that aim to improve health outcomes.
Efficiency
The ability to work with a single partner for a variety of healthcare solutions, maximizes efficiencies, reduces costs and decreases vendor fatigue. And our award-winning processes save you time and money, allowing you to focus your efforts on what matters most – your stakeholders.
Innovation
Medical Pharmacies continually funds and participates in clinical research to introduce new programs and technologies with the goal of improving resident-centered care and operational efficiencies for you.
Leadership Team
Yves Portelance
Senior Vice President/General Manager, Homecare, Specialty & Retail
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Our History
The Desjardins Group, a three-generation family business, opens a single retail pharmacy, located in the Byward Market of Ottawa, Ontario.
Pharmacist Erast Huculak, opens the doors of his first pharmacy in Oshawa, Ontario. His services include delivering prescriptions by bicycle to seniors that are unable to pick up their medicines at the store.
Jean-Paul Desjardins acquires Ontario Medical Supply (OMS) and expands to a small, three-person operation providing pharmaceutical and healthcare products and services in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario.
Erast Huculak is joined by three pharmacists, Richard Sevazlian, Sydney Shrott and Stephen Pearson. The four owners build Medical Pharmacies Group Limited (MPGL) into the leading long term care pharmacy in Canada.
MPGL introduces medication management policies, procedures, audits, and the model of clinical consulting pharmacists in long term care.
OMS combines all of its operations including the head office, warehousing and distribution facilities to one location at 848 Belfast Road, Ottawa.
MPLG develops MEDeAlert pharmacy software to ensure safe dosing of medications.
MPGL introduces the first integrated eMAR product in Canada with PointClickCare® into long term care
OMS expands and centralizes all non-retail services to a 50,000 square foot new facility, attached to a 5,000 square foot medical products showroom at 1100 Algoma Road, Ottawa.
MPGL develops and implements MEDeINR in collaboration with McMaster University researchers, promoting safer anticoagulant dosing of warfarin.
MPGL develops web-based auditing and reporting of metrics from the medication management system
MPGL acquires three long term care pharmacies in British Columbia and acquires Desjardins pharmacy and Ontario Medical Supply.
MPGL opens first pharmacy in Calgary, Alberta.
BOOMR – Better Coordinated Medication Reconciliation program is piloted in Ontario, in collaboration with Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre and Sienna Senior Living.
MPGL launches the first electronic long term care medication incident reporting system called MedEReport.
MPGL introduces a unique, integrated medical cannabis program to help improve the quality of life of residents.
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