CISSS Monteregie-Est, Honore-Mercier Hospital

CISSS Monteregie-Est, Honore-Mercier Hospital

  • City/Town: Saint-Hyacinthe
  • State/Providence: Quebec
  • Institution Characteristics
    • Community Hospital
    • Level 2 Trauma Center
  • Annual ED Visits per Year
    • 50-74,999
  • Number of Pharmacists/Full-Time Equivalent (FTE)
    • 1
  • Daily ED Coverage
    • <8 hours/day
  • Length of Time in Years Institution has had EM Pharmacy Services
    • 3-5 years
  • Size of Institution
    • 200-399 hospital beds
  • Clinical Pharmacy Services
    • 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
    • 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)