Pharmacy
Our hospital pharmacy plays an important part in providing care for our patients.
Our goal is to provide the best possible delivery of pharmaceutical care. In addition to overseeing all medication use and management, we provide many clinical services to our patients.
Pharmacy Clinical Services
- Respond to drug information questions
- Monitor patient liver/kidney function; recommend adjustments of medication doses to physicians
- Educate patients with congestive heart failure about their medications
- Prepare intravenous (IV) solutions that aren’t available from commercial suppliers
- Mix antibiotics and other medications necessary for the IV route
- Serve on CMC teams to improve medication processes and other quality initiatives
- Add/remove hospital-stocked medications (the Formulary) to ensure CMC is up-to-date on new medications; find better ways to use older medications as medical information changes
- Respond to physician requests to monitor certain medications, especially antibiotics
- Monitor continuously patient medication profiles (prescribed medication list); with each medication order, screen for potential drug-drug, drug-food, drug/disease-state interactions, allergies, and appropriate dosing of all medications
- Pharmacists can automatically change some IV medications to oral. This reduces the risks of IV therapy and saves the patient money.
- Pharmacists can automatically reduce the amount of some medications you receive if your kidney function is reduced. This reduces the risk of getting too much medication and saves you money.
- Pharmacists review the patients’ pre-surgery antibiotic therapy to assure the correct dose and potential allergies have been taken into consideration.
- Pharmacists prepare and monitor total parenteral nutrition solutions. These solutions are used for patients who cannot eat or has digestive system problems.
Our team of CMC pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are here to serve you.