The Pharmacy Department services both Wolfson Children's Hospital and Baptist Medical Center. The Pharmacy provides 24-hour inpatient support for both facilities. The department is staffed with approximately 86 employees including technicians, centralized and decentralized pharmacists, pharmacy residents and interns, administrative personnel, and clerical support.
The department utilizes automated drug delivery units and profile dispense throughout the hospital. The Pharmacy also utilizes a robotic system to dispense approximately 60% of medications. A large percentage of our unit dose medications are packaged onsite.
Services within the department include:
- Unit dose distribution
- Intravenous admixtures
- Total parental nutrition
- Chemotherapy
- Decentralized clinical services
- Advanced technology support, including wireless PC's and clinical decision support tools
- Investigational drug services
Pediatric and Adult decentralized clinical pharmacists provide clinical pharmacy services to their respective area of practice. Clinical services provided by the department include:
- Renal drug monitoring
- Drug interaction monitoring
- Therapeutic drug monitoring
- Drug order review
- Drug information