medication strip packs

I work in LTC. Our meds come weekly from pharmacy in a strip pack (little plastic baggy with all 0800 meds in one bag and then all 1200 in another etc).
So for eg. 0800 bag would have Digoxin, calcium, metoprolol
1200 bag would have calcium
1600 bag would have coumadin, alprazolam
these are just a made up example.

My question is what system do you use in LTC?


ALSO, when our strip packs come in, they make 2 RN's check them. So we go through the MAR and compare the MAR to the actual strip pack to verify that the strip packs are correct, we do this for each resident before we put the strip packs in the med cart. Of course meds are checked by the person giving them at the time-obviously.

This is the only LTC facility I worked in that does that. I think it's unnecessary.
What do you think?