SIRUM's work is possible through state policies allowing medicine donation and drug repository programs. We were proud to support Georgia House Bill 1072 to help make medicine more accessible for patients across GA. The bill expands the state's drug repository program run by Good Pill Pharmacy, one of our flagship community partners: ✅ Boosts access when patients need it most by requiring hospitals, pharmacies, and other state health programs to promote Good Pill when prescribed drugs are unaffordable (most Good Pill prescriptions are $2/month) ✅ Makes it easier for patients to fill their prescriptions at Good Pill by allowing easier substitutions of equivalent doses ✅ Increases the amount of affordable medicine available to patients by encouraging more organizations to donate (instead of destroy) eligible medicine ✅ And more! As the nation's largest redistributor of surplus medicine, SIRUM advises drug donation policies across the country. More meds saved = more lives saved. Let’s keep it going! >> Read the Georgia House press release: https://lnkd.in/gk7mfi-9
About us
SIRUM is a social enterprise committed to expanding healthcare access for those in need. Incubated at Stanford University, we leverage the power of technology to save medicine to save lives. As the nation’s largest redistributor of surplus medicine, SIRUM helps organizations like health facilities and pharmacies to donate their unused medicine and get it to where it’s needed most. Our community partners like safety-net clinics and charitable pharmacies dispense donated medicine to patients who otherwise wouldn't have access. We’ve already helped 150,000 uninsured and underinsured patients get access to life-saving medicine – and we’re just getting started.
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http://www.sirum.org
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- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, CA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2009
- Specialties
- technology, medicine donations, health safety-net, health equity, and surplus medicine
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Palo Alto, CA 94306, US
Employees at SIRUM
Updates
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Our work to make medicine more accessible to patients in need starts with medicine donation. Pharmacies, hospitals, nursing homes and other donors work with SIRUM to donate instead of destroy their unexpired, unopened surplus medicine. Donated medicine goes straight to our community partners who get it into the hands of patients in need -- more than 100,000 individuals in 2023 alone! Thank you PharMerica and all our other medicine donors!
We're proud of our partnership with SIRUM to donate unexpired, unused medications to underserved patients. In 2023, PharMerica donated 719,287 prescriptions valued at an estimated $24,907,973 to those in need. More than 50 million Americans don’t take their prescribed medication because they can’t afford it, often making the impossible choice between medications and food, housing, gas, or other necessities. At the same time, up to $11 billion worth of surplus medication goes to waste every year. Learn more about this important program and partnership: https://hubs.ly/Q02v38tm0
SIRUM Medicine Donation in Action: PharMerica
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Hot off the press! 🗞 Honored to join other remarkable social entrepreneurs as an Emerson Collective #DialFellow. Check out Cohort 5 of the Dial Fellowship and learn how we address old problems in bold, new ways.
We are thrilled to announce Emerson Collective’s new cohort of Dial Fellows. These individuals are leaders charting new paths forward in the fields of storytelling, social innovation, and health. #ECFellow #DialFellow Meet this year’s Dial Fellows: https://lnkd.in/e8g2shvV
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We're honored to be a semi-finalist for The Heart of Healthcare Podcast's $50,000 grant challenge! Help us win the grand prize by voting online by October 1: https://lnkd.in/gFNZJDhK --> Listen to co-founder Kiah Williams tell the story of why we save medicine to save lives on the podcast: https://lnkd.in/giFXHzm2
WE NEED YOUR INPUT! Our esteemed group of judges have helped narrow down grant applications to four incredible non-profit organizations (each which have received a $2,500 grant), and now it's time to pick the 💫 $50,000 Grand Prize Winner 💫 . Meet the semi-finalists: SIRUM, led by Kiah Williams, is the nation’s largest redistributor of surplus medicine. They help organizations like health facilities and pharmacies to donate their unused medicine and get it to where it’s needed most. Libertas Center for Human Rights, led by Dinali Fernando, MD, MPH, provides survivors of torture and human rights violations in the New York City area with comprehensive medical, mental health, social and legal services to help them regain function and restore humanity in their lives. Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, led by Donald Warne, supports and implements public health interventions designed for and by Indigenous peoples. Our Center is distinguished by longstanding relationships that date back to the 1980s with tribes in the southwest U.S., including the Navajo Nation and the White Mountain Apache Tribe. HOPE Village Revitalization, led by Jeff Jones, is a community controlled organization committed to improving the quality of life in the Hope Village neighborhood in Detroit. 🗳 VOTE NOW: https://lnkd.in/gFNZJDhK
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No one should have to choose between paying for their medicine and paying for their rent, groceries, or gas. But that's the reality for millions of people in America every day. Meanwhile, billions of dollars in perfectly good, unused medicine goes to waste each year. It doesn't have to be this way -- and that's what SIRUM is here to solve. Learn more about our work to save medicine to save lives in this new video: https://lnkd.in/gaGSziPe
Saving Medicine, Saving Lives
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