AMITA St Francis Hospital

AMITA St Francis Hospital

City/Town: Evanston

State/Providence: IL

Country: United States

Institution Characteristics:

• Community Hospital
• Level 1 Trauma Center
• Comprehensive Cardiac Center
• Pediatric Trauma Center

Annual ED Visits per Year: <50,000

Length of Time in Years: <1years

Size of Institution: 100-199 Hospital Beds

Number of Pharmacists/Full Time Equivalent (FTE): 1

Daily ED Coverage: 8-12 hours/day

Clinical Pharmacy Services:

• Prospective Order Verification
• Antimicrobial stewardship activities including microbiological culture and susceptibility follow-up
• Medication administration
• Pharmacotherapy Consultation
• Direct bedside care during high risk medication use (rapid sequence intubation, procedural sedation)
• Emergency department resuscitation team (cardiopulmonary arrest, trauma, and burn resuscitation, myocardial infarction, stroke, sepsis)
• Patient counseling and education
• Pharmacy Resident Precepting
• Guideline/protocol/process development
• Medication therapy updates and education on optimal medication therapy for ED team members (often takes place at the bedside or in the ED)
• Vaccine administration