The Story of Elixir, pc —
Formulated to Serve Michigan's Pharmacies and Pharmacy Professionals
After two decades...
Two decades invested in working in Michigan pharmacies, earning experience in retail, clinical, and manufacturing pharmacy environments...
Two decades spent at the counter and at the administrative desk, gaining the perspectives of staff pharmacists and upper management...
After ten years immersed in the practice of pharmacy, Michigan pharmacist Deborah McNutt considers these two facts incontrovertible:
- Successful pharmacy operations rely absolutely upon knowledgeable, dependable, and loyal pharmacy staff.
- Pharmacy professionals have the greatest career satisfaction when they receive considerate management, fair compensation, and recognition for excellent work.
As a pharmacist, pharmacy technician, or pharmacy manager yourself, you have probably reached similar conclusions. Quality personnel are the backbone of a successful pharmacy. Pharmacy professionals want and deserve career satisfaction and positive employment experience.
Yet there is a problem standing in the way of both pharmacies and pharmacy personnel.
The Problem: Internal and External Challenges
Factors that frustrate the needs of pharmacy management and professionals include:
- Staffing shortages due to business expansion, loss of personnel, and both planned and unplanned absence;
- Challenge to pharmacy professionals in finding positions within their optimal practice areas;
- Difficulty in recruiting and qualifying personnel;
- Business factors that disfavor personalized management and recognition of employees; and
- Huge employment agencies that lack specialized experience struggling to address the individual, localized needs of pharmacies and professionals.
With her unique “dual perspective” — as staff pharmacist and as management — drawn from her own experience in many pharmacy practice settings, Deborah McNutt was inspired to attempt a cure for these problems.
A New Remedy: The Elixir Pharmacy Staffing Formula
Deborah McNutt established Elixir, pc in 2001.
Her objective: to unprecedentedly meet the needs of both pharmacies and pharmacy professionals in Michigan.
The “active ingredients” in her formulation of the “Elixir”:
- For pharmacies, fair and reasonable terms and personnel selection policies developed to ensure that Elixir employees are the quality pharmacy professionals that she would choose to work with herself as pharmacy management.
- For pharmacy professionals — pharmacists and certified pharmacy technicians — a unique compensation package with merit-based rewards, designed to encourage superior performance and ensure that Elixir professionals enjoy high career satisfaction.
- Critical to serving Elixir's pharmacy clients and pharmacy professionals, a management team that is unmatched in accommodating the individual needs of clients and employees.
With a unique “mechanism of action,” Elixir:
- Relieves staffing shortages by supplying capable personnel to pharmacies, even on short notice (typically within 24 hours)
- Provides pharmacy professionals with placements in a diverse range of practice settings, allowing further advancement within each professional's preferred area.
- Screens and delivers to pharmacies pre-qualified temporary pharmacy staff and employment candidates — licensed pharmacists and certified pharmacy technicians — that are selected with a pharmacy manager's insight.
- Treats employees as the valued professionals they are, providing competitive compensation, accommodating their specific needs, and rewarding their individual successes; and
- Efficiently addresses the individual, specialized, localized needs of Michigan's pharmacies and professionals. Elixir IS local, serving Michigan exclusively. Elixir is specialized, working in pharmacy and ONLY in pharmacy. And Elixir is structured to work one-on-one with individual clients and employees.
Elixir's Proven Efficacy
The innovative Elixir formula for Michigan pharmacy staffing has proven a resounding success!
Elixir's pharmacy clients and pharmacy professionals alike praise Elixir's service, quality, and employment experience and choose Elixir as their preferred staffing company.
The Elixir team looks forward to continuing in its rewarding objective: serving Michigan's pharmacies and pharmacy professionals — serving YOU!
Become part of the ongoing story of Elixir! Contact the pharmacy staffing specialists or read on to learn more about Elixir's solutions for pharmacies and pharmacy professionals.
