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A member-based organization, LIPA advocates on behalf of your needs, issues and concerns and is dedicated to delivering quality information designed to inform and compel.

As small business entrepreneurs, independent pharmacists are dynamic, multi-dimensional health care providers who play a critical role in Louisiana's health care delivery system. With a strong foundation in its communities, they lead grass roots public health, civic, and volunteer initiatives and, as such, represent a vital resource.

Short-term, the goal of pharmacies and LIPA is to ensure individual health but long-term, they are focused on improving the overall quality of health care in order to realize the best possible outcomes.

Joining LIPA gives you access to our newsletter, news clips, and various other continuous updates of vital information to the independent pharmacy community as well as a comprehensive group of benefits.

As a member of LIPA, independent pharmacies receive cogent analyses, reports and updates of news impacting their industry as well as a host of other resources:

• Legislative representation advocacy, and teaching to defend and advance your goals;
• Regular communications regarding state, federal, and global news concerning not only pharmacy but the larger healthcare scene as well, and
• A forum for community pharmacy idea exchange as well as education, opportunities, and support for aspiring community pharmacists.

LIPA is your strategic and legislative voice-helping you run a more effective and profitable business. We maintain powerful relationships and engage at every level:

• Playing a significant role in Louisiana Health First redesign as well as participation at the federal level with healthcare policy and the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy as well as the Louisiana Department of Insurance.
• Taking an active role in agencies such as CMS to ensure pharmacy is involved in day to day healthcare matters as well as the healthcare reform process in general, and
• Providing a collaborative partnership by working with government, private business, and individuals to learn, apply, and improve pharmacy and healthcare policy.

Click here for Membership Application (PDF)

The pharmacies and pharmacists of the Louisiana Independent Pharmacies Association work with a focus on providing the health care solutions to our patients through personalized, high quality healthcare, one patient at a time. Louisiana community pharmacists utilize up-to-date continued training, the latest in technology, and most importantly a vested interest in a personal dialogue with every patient to provide family-oriented healthcare service to our state. Our pharmacists develop and maintain relationships with each individual patient, following their medical history, monitoring their day-to-day patient health, and safe guarding their future well-being. Local independent pharmacies are the front line in patient care and every patient's personal ally in their aspiration for the most exemplary of healthcare services. Our pharmacists are the patients most accessible healthcare provider, no appointment needed. Convenience, quality, and trustworthiness are the hallmarks of our pharmacy community.

Louisiana independent community pharmacies have grown to over six hundred locations that service both the urban and rural communities of our state. These pharmacists continue a focus of face-to-face healthcare with comprehensive patient oriented service. Louisiana's independent pharmacy community provides a network of support, information, and advocacy centered around quality accessible healthcare. LIPA's pharmacists handle not only the fundamental and essential pharmacy healthcare services such as dispensing and counseling but also have expanded their scope of care to face the healthcare challenges these trying times present for Louisiana. In order to face the emerging pandemic of H1N1, Louisiana pharmacists are working together to provide training to their fellow providers in preparation to administer vaccinations to the most at-risk of our citizens.

In the wake of healthcare reform discussions on the state and national level, and a constantly evolving system of providers, regulations and services, Louisiana's independent community pharmacists are working with national, state, and local, public and private entities and most importantly with each other to ensure a consistent, perpetually improving quality of healthcare. All of which is done in pursuit of excellence for the patients of Louisiana. LIPA hopes that you will join our community and help us strive to continue to provide exemplary care as healthcare providers and to continue to contribute to a healthy Louisiana.

Louisiana Independent Pharmacies Association

This legal statement contains the terms and conditions governing this Site, http://www.LIPANOW.org, and all sites of Louisiana Independent Pharmacies Association. ("LIPANOW "), which are linked to this Site (collectively, the "Sites"). By using any of these Sites, you expressly accept and agree to abide by all the terms and conditions contained in this Legal Statement. Do not use any Sites if you do not accept and agree to these terms and conditions. Unless otherwise referenced herein, any reference to " LIPANOW " shall include LIPANOW and all of its affiliates.

LIPANOW promises not to sell, rent or give your name to any third parties. It's that simple.

This Privacy Policy Statement sets forth the privacy policy pertaining to this Site, http://www.LIPANOW.org. By using the Site, you are agreeing to the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy Statement.

For purposes of this Privacy Policy Statement, "Personal Information" means any information by which you can be personally identified, and includes your name, your address, your telephone number, your e-mail address and the like. Our Site does not require that you submit Personal Information to LIPANOW . However, some sections of the Site may request Personal Information in order to help LIPANOW serve you more effectively. LIPANOW collects Personal Information only when you voluntarily submit such Personal Information to us, such as when placing a product order through the Site, when entering a contest, and so on.

For each visitor to the Site, our Web servers automatically recognize only information regarding the visitor's domain name (or that of the visitor's access provider) and e-mail address. Regardless of the purpose for which it is submitted, it is LIPANOW policy to maintain all Personal Information as confidential, and to use such Personal Information only for the following purposes:

• for the specific purpose for which it was volunteered (for example, to complete a product purchase, to enter a contest, to answer an email, etc.);
• to improve the content, appearance and utility of the Site;
• to track our visitors' use of the Site for internal market research; and to notify our visitors of updates to the Site.

It is LIPANOW 's policy to keep Personal Information only for so long as needed for such purposes. LIPANOW does not sell or rent to third parties Personal Information about its customers or visitors to the Site. At any time, you may obtain a summary of the Personal Information on record with LIPANOW, which has been collected about you via this Site. Except for the Personal Information we need to complete your purchase of products, you may request at any time that LIPANOW dispose of any or all Personal Information about you. In addition, at any time you may request (i) that LIPANOW correct any such Personal Information or (ii) that such Personal Information be removed from LIPANOW 's marketing databases. To make any request described above, either:

Send an e-mail to:
info@lipanow.org

Or write to:
Louisiana Independent Pharmacies Association
637 St. Ferdinand Street
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802

Please be sure to provide your exact e-mail address, name, address and/or telephone number(s) so that we can handle your request correctly.

LIPANOW reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy Statement at any time. You should check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of this Site following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy Statement will mean that you accept those changes.

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LIPANOW owns this site. LIPANOW owns or has rights to all of the wallpaper, icons, characters, artwork, images, graphics, music, text, software and other content of the Sites (the "Content"), and all HTML, CGI and other code and scripts in any format used to implement the Sites (the "Code") except for the sections that our distributors are displayed. The Content and Code of the Sites are protected by copyright. Except as set forth above, you may not copy, modify, upload, download, transmit, re-publish, display for redistribution to third parties for commercial purposes, or otherwise distribute any Code or Content from the Sites without the prior written agreement of LIPANOW.

PRODUCT AND PRICING INFORMATION

Although LIPANOW has made every effort to display the products and their colors as accurately as possible, the displayed colors of the products will depend upon the monitor of the user and LIPANOW cannot guarantee that the user's monitor will accurately portray the actual colors of the products. Products displayed are directly from the manufacturers website and may be out-of-stock or discontinued, and prices are subject to change. LIPANOW is not responsible for typographical errors regarding price or any other matter. Subject to the foregoing, the prices displayed are quoted in U.S. dollars and are effective only for United States purchases.

DISCLAIMERS

LIPANOW publishes information on its Site as a convenience to its visitors. While LIPANOW attempts to provide accurate and timely information, there may be inadvertent technical or factual inaccuracies and typographical errors. We reserve the right to make corrections and changes to the Site at any time without notice. The LIPANOW products described in its Site may not be available in your region. LIPANOW does not claim that the information in the Site is appropriate to your jurisdiction or that the products described in its Site will be available for purchase in all jurisdictions. LIPANOW operates its Site from the United States. It is possible that some software that may be downloaded from the Site is subject to government export control or other restrictions. By visiting and using our Site, you acknowledge these restrictions and agree that you are not subject to them. LIPANOW makes no warranties of any kind regarding any non- LIPANOW sites to which the user may be directed or hyperlinked from this Site. Hyperlinks are included solely for the convenience of the user, and LIPANOW makes no representations or warranties with regard to the accuracy, availability, suitability, or safety of information provided in such non- LIPANOW sites. Visitors assume all responsibility and risk with respect to their use of the Site. LIPANOW disclaims all warranties, representations and endorsements, express or implied, with regard to information accessed from or via the Site, including but not limited to all express and implied warranties, such as warranty of title, merchantability, non-infringement and fitness for a particular purpose. LIPANOW does not warrant that the Sites are free of computer viruses, bugs or other harmful components. LIPANOW does not warrant that the functions contained in the material will be uninterrupted or error-free or that errors will be detected or corrected. LIPANOW does not assume any liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, reliability or usefulness of the information disclosed or accessed through the Sites. LIPANOW does not have any duty to update its Site or modify its Content or Code, and LIPANOW shall not be liable for its failure to update such information. It is your responsibility to verify any information contained in the Site before relying upon it.

IN NO EVENT SHALL LIPANOW BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF WHATEVER KIND RESULTING FROM WHATEVER CAUSE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF DAMAGE, TANGIBLE OR INTANGIBLE IN NATURE, WHETHER IN AN ACTION UNDER THEORIES OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATING TO THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE INFORMATION ON, OR ACCESSED THROUGH, THE LIPANOW SITE.

LIPANOW reserves the right to withdraw access to the Site or to revise the services and products described in the Site at any time without notice. LIPANOW may at any time revise the terms and conditions contained in this Legal Statement by updating this posting. You are bound by any revisions and should periodically visit this page to review the current terms and conditions that apply to your use of the Sites. The invalidity of any term, condition or provision of this Legal Statement shall not affect the enforceability of those portions of the Legal Statement deemed enforceable by applicable courts of law.

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