January 26, 2024

Together as One: Sage Family of Companies

Our “Together as One” series spotlights hospice programs, nurses, physicians, pharmacists and others who positively impact the lives of hospice patients and their families every day. Through the dedicated and compassionate work of these inspiring professionals, patients receive the high-quality care and attentive consideration they deserve. Together, they create the network of support so essential to hospice care. We invite you to meet the people behind the mission—and see what one can do.

Sage Family of Companies was co-founded in 2018 by COO, Tabitha Droddy, and began as a single hospice and palliative care program in Scottsdale, Arizona. Under her leadership, the Sage Family of Companies has expanded its footprint throughout Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and Georgia, offering a continuum of care in hospice, palliative, and primary care services.

Throughout the years, Sage Family of Companies has remained focused on their Mission “To provide the most compassionate, comprehensive, and qualified care to people with a life-limiting illness to serve them through their individual journey with dignity, respect, and integrity.” This patient-centric approach and commitment to quality has enabled Sage to continue expanding into underserved communities.

OnePoint Patient Care was the original PBM and pharmacy partner for Sage hospice in Arizona. As Sage expanded their operations and began serving more and more patients, OnePoint supported them every step of the way.

Said Tabitha, “Your pricing is competitive, and your customer service is the best. As we expanded our operations across four states, having OPPC’s PBM by our side, scaling with us, made a big difference. You helped us contain our costs, so that we could remain focused on delivering the best possible patient care.”

Another important component in the partnership, and a “key differentiator in the market” according to Tabitha, is OPPC’s local, hospice-dedicated pharmacy dispensing and delivery model.

“OnePoint’s ability to offer 24/7, same-day medication dispensing and delivery has helped us be able to provide the very best possible care to our patients. The fact that OnePoint can control the entire pharmacy process, as a single partner, has made our experience outstanding.”

Furthermore, as COO, Tabitha values OnePoint’s operational and clinical expertise, as well as their responsiveness and accountability as a single point-of-contact, to “actually get someone on the phone, who will do what they say they’ll do. Trying to resolve issues while dealing with an independent pharmacy and a 3^rd party PBM is a challenge. OnePoint’s model is clearly superior.”

Having a single PBM and a local, hospice-dedicated pharmacy partner – in each of their new locations – has made Sage’s decision to partner with OPPC a rewarding one.

Additionally, OPPC’s footprint of more than 160 dispensing pharmacies across the country ensures that Sage family of companies will always have a local, hospice-dedicated pharmacy partner to rely on as they continue to serve more and more patients across the country.

In the end, Sage family of companies and OPPC share a commitment to delivering the very best patient care, which bodes well for their partnership and most importantly, their patients.

Read more about the Sage Family of Companies and their commitment to A legacy of serving with excellence. Every life. Every time.