Dignity Health St Joseph’s Medical Center

Dignity Health St Joseph’s Medical Center

• City/Town: Stockton
• State/Providence: California
• Institution Characteristics
  • Community Hospital
• Annual ED Visits per Year
  • >100,000
• Number of Pharmacists/Full-Time Equivalent (FTE)
  • 2-3
• Daily ED Coverage
  • 16 hours on weekdays and 8 hours on weekends
• Length of Time in Years Institution has had EM Pharmacy Services
  • 10-14 years
• Size of Institution
  • 200-399 hospital beds
• Clinical Pharmacy Services
  • Prospective Order Verification
  • 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)
  • 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)