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Pathway Health Corp. Announces Collaboration Agreement with Metro Ontario Pharmacies Limited
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n Pathway Health Corp. Announces Collaboration Agreement with Metro Ontario Pharmacies Limited\n \n \n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canada NewsWire\n \n \n \n \n \n Collaboration Agreement on Pathway Health's Medical Cannabis Management System in Pharmacy to include the Metro Pharmacy and Food Basics Pharmacy banners of Metro Ontario Pharmacies Limited\n \n \n .\n \n \n \n \n TORONTO\n \n ,\n \n Dec. 7, 2021\n \n /CNW/ - Pathway Health, Corp. (\"\n \n Pathway\n \n \" or the \"\n \n Company\n \n \") (TSXV: PHC) is pleased to announce that it has signed a Collaboration Agreement (the \"Agreement\") with Metro Ontario Pharmacies Limited (\"\n \n Metro Ontario Pharmacies\n \n \"), a subsidiary of Metro Inc. (TSX: MRU), pertaining to the implementation of Pathway's Medical Cannabis Management System (\"\n \n MCMS\n \n \") in Metro Ontario Pharmacies' Metro Pharmacy and Food Basics Pharmacy bannered pharmacies across Ontario.\n \n \n The joint initiative has two components, the first consisting of Pathway providing its accredited continuing education course \"Cannabis and Patient Care for Pharmacists\" which trains pharmacists in patient assessments and current prescription reviews for contraindications. The course meets or exceeds the requirements of the Canadian Council on Continuing Education in Pharmacy (\"\n \n CCCEP\n \n \") and the\n \n Ontario\n \n College of Pharmacists as well as being approved for all other Provinces and in a bi-lingual format. The second initiative involves the implementation of Pathway's MCMS in Metro Ontario Pharmacies' pharmacy locations across\n \n Ontario\n \n .\n \n \n Pathway's MCMS was designed to be implemented in retail pharmacies, with the overarching goals of providing access points for medical cannabis care and enabling pharmacists to offer medical cannabis assessments to appropriate pharmacy patients. Under the MCMS, patients are then connected to the patient's own General Practitioner or a Pathway physician/nurse practitioner for further evaluation through physical or virtual care. The MCMS has also b...