More about The Christ Hospital Pharmacy Department
The Pharmacy Department is an integral component of the hospital utilizing the latest technologies to provide round the clock pharmaceutical dare designed to enhance quality, promote safety, and ensure compliance with regulatory agencies. The pharmacy model employs a combination of centralized, decentralized, and satellite services. Clinical pharmacy services include ambulatory care, antimicrobial stewardship, cardiology, critical care, emergency medicine, internal medicine, oncology, transplant, palliative care, and pharmacogenomics. Additional services offered by the pharmacy include:
Sterile and non-sterile compounding
Computerized intravenous admixture and unit dose dispensing
Advanced technology support, including wireless PCs, automated dispensing devices (robot and Pyxis) and clinical decision support tools
Investigational drug studies
Decentralized pharmacist practice
Patient education programs
Clinical pharmacy specialty practices
Consult (collaborative care) agreement based practice
Chronic disease state management
Pharmacogenomics
Drug information programs
In-service education
The Christ Hospital utilizes a computer-based physician order entry program (EPIC) that integrates data from pharmacy, admissions, laboratory, radiology, nursing, medicine and microbiology.