About

Pharmacy of Grace:

Meeting the Need

• One in ten people in the Kansas City metro area are uninsured and as many as 40-percent are underinsured, making simple maintenance or even life-saving medications unaffordable.
• Charitable Program: Pharmacy of Grace offers the Grace Meds program with deeply discounted prices for patients (children, families, individuals) living at or below 300% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL). More than half of our patients are below 100% FPL. For a single individual, this means an annual income of no more than $15,060; or for a family of four, an income of no more than $31,200.
• Pharmacy of Grace provides comprehensive pharmacy services to patients providing continuity of care for serious medical conditions. We focus on making sure patients can afford their medication every month, not just on a short term basis.
• The most recent Health Equity Action Transformation (HEAT) report showed:
  • 30-40% uninsured population in service area near the KCK pharmacy
  • High rate of emergency department visits to Children’s Mercy Hospital
  • High rate of emergency department visits and readmissions to University of Kansas Medical Center
• Study published in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association (J Am Pharm Assoc. 2015; 55:59–66. doi: 10.1331/JAPhA.2015.1401:
  • Charitable Pharmacy model used in study reduced emergency room services or hospitalizations from a mean of 2.36 visits to 1.33 per year
  • Study showed 71% of patients reported that they had increased access to health care providers including physicians, nurse practitioners and pharmacists
  • Study reported prescription access increased from 41% to 85%