How nurse practitioner Katie delivers life-changing LAIs
August 18, 2025
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Katie L. has seen the difference long-acting injectables (LAIs) can make for her consumers living with serious mental illness.
“LAIs are life-changing,” said Katie, who provides care at the Center for Health and Recovery, an outpatient treatment center in Phoenix. “They allow people to get back to work and engage in normal settings with their family when they may not have been able to do that before.”
Katie partners with Genoa Healthcare pharmacy to provide LAIs to the people she serves. Administered through injection, LAIs release medication gradually over time, helping ensure consistent therapeutic levels and improve adherence to treatment for people living with psychiatric conditions, substance use disorder and HIV.
Genoa specializes in filling LAIs and can administer them where authorized.* Its pharmacy teams also assist with prior authorizations and offer free, flexible LAI delivery options to clinics.
“When people have symptoms of psychosis or disorders that affect their ability to assess reality, they may not have insight into their need for medication,” she said. Without this insight, she adds, many people go without their treatment.
Behavioral health LAIs can control a person’s symptoms for weeks to months, helping ensure consistent medication levels. Each week, Katie connects with the Genoa pharmacy team about her LAI schedule for the following week to ensure the medications are filled and delivered before they’re due for administration.
When last-minute changes pop up, she says she can count on Genoa to ensure her consumers get the treatment they need.
“We never, ever go without an LAI we need working with the Genoa team,” Katie said, adding that she sometimes cares for people who are discharged from the hospital and due for an injection the next day. “To have a pharmacy team who you can work with to make sure you get those medications on their due dates – and to overcome any insurance barriers if there are any – is really important.”
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*Where authorized by law, Genoa can fill and administer a LAI when the decision is made to start this type of medication.