The 24-hour pharmacy department provides a comprehensive group of services including computerized unit dose/IV admixture preparation and distribution, pharmacokinetic drug dosing, nutritional support, investigation drug service, drug information and nursing home satellite. The Pharmacy Department has a staff of 50 pharmacists and supportive personnel.

Our hospital supports the expanding role of the pharmacist in providing pharmaceutical care.  Some of our clinical services provided by our outstanding staff include:

• Rounds in Critical Care, Nursery, Pediatrics, Nutrition Support, Wound Care, and Internal Medicine

• Renal Dosing Program with technician participation

• Numerous Target Drug Programs

• Drug/Disease state screening for Pregnancy & Lactation

• Computerized Drug Information

• Pharmacy Newsletters

• Nursing Home Pharmacy Consultants performing chart reviews

• Quality Control with compounding of sterile products

• Competency-based staff development programs for various disease states/age related categories

• Structured orientation program

• State-of-the-art Medical Library

• Membership to Pharmacy/Nursing Liaison Committee

• Computer interfaces to laboratory data & electronic medical record

• Patient-Controlled Analgesia

• Participation on hospital-wide Pain Management Team

• Anticoagulation services

• Development of Clinical Pathways