Pharmacy Services
Services Provides: Clinical and Technology
The pharmacy department at Community Medical Center is responsible for
the verification and distribution of all medications within the hospital.
Our role is ensuring safe and effective medication use.
Community Medical Center pharmacy provides 24-hour pharmacy services. Pharmacists
provide a wide range of services including but not limited to anticoagulation
monitoring, renal dosing, antimicrobial stewardship, appropriate IV to
oral medication transition, patient counseling and evaluation of lab results.
The Pharmacy Department has an excellent working relationship with nursing,
medical and ancillary departments within the medical center.
Clinical Services
The extensive clinical pharmacy services available at Community Medical
Center provide our patients with the highest level of interdisciplinary
care. Services include Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Internal Medicine,
and Geriatrics.
Pharmacy has a strong presence on several hospital wide committees including
Infection Control, Antimicrobial Subcommittee, Pharmacy and Therapeutics,
Critical Care and Medication Management.
In addition, the pharmacy department has a robust research arm that performs
research relative to clinical practice at the site.
Technology
Community Medical Center utilizes several state of the art pharmacy technologies
including:
Cerner® for electronic medical records and computerized physician order entry
Pyxis ES Automated Dispensing Systems
Pharmacy OneSource® Suite
Talyst® Carousels