May 2012
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Preparing, handling, and administering chemotherapy in a large health care system can be challenging, as the precise processes and safeguards necessary for safe and efficient care depend on several factors. Not the least of these factors is finding, training, and retaining qualified staff willing to dedicate the time and discipline required for working with chemotherapy and other hazardous medications. Lee ... 
Employee Prescriptions Drive an Effective Outpatient Pharmacy
Many facilities consider opening an outpatient pharmacy in the hopes of increasing revenue and providing improved patient care. Whether these pharmacies succeed is dependent on various factors, making it key to identify the elements specific to your operation that will allow the venture to flourish. In our case, forecasting, strategizing, and identifying and capturing a large percentage of employee ... Author: Jack Durley, BS Pharm
Issue: April 2012
As recently as five years ago, drug shortages occurred infrequently and generally involved rarely prescribed medications. With ample notice preceding these shortages, developing a detailed and thorough contingency plan was a straightforward process. Today, however, the management of drug shortages has become a foremost challenge in clinical pharmacy practice due to both increased frequency and minimal ... Maximize Robot and Carousel Efficiencies
The Baton Rouge General Medical Center in Louisiana operates two facilities with a total of 509 beds and over 3,000 employees. Each campus has one carousel, and one robot is utilized in the pharmacy servicing cart fill for both campuses. Operating on a centralized medication distribution model has enabled pharmacy to provide nurses with timely delivery of medications at the beginning of each day. The cart ... Author: Debra Jarratt, RPh
Issue: March 2012
Our mission at Maimonides Medical Center, a 100-year-old community, nonprofit, teaching hospital located in Brooklyn, New York, is to provide the highest level of compassionate and quality care to the communities we serve. This goal of our 711-bed, award-winning facility provided the impetus to creating a design for a full-scale pharmacy renovation plan in 2008; the renovation was completed successfully ... What do you think of the new website?
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