Hennepin County Medical Center Emergency Room

Hennepin County Medical Center Emergency Room

  • City/Town: Minneapolis
  • State: MN

Institution Characteristics

  • Academic Medical Center (Teaching Hospital)
  • Level 1 Trauma Center
  • Comprehensive Stroke Center
  • Comprehensive Cardiac Center
  • Pediatric Trauma Center

Annual ED Visits per Year

  • 75-100,000 ED visits per year

Number of Pharmacists/Full-Time Equivalent (FTE)

  • 2-3

Daily ED Coverage

  • 8-12 hours/day

Length of Time in Years Institution has had EM Pharmacy Services

  • 10-14 years

Size of Institution

  • 400-699 Hospital Beds

Clinical Pharmacy Services

  • Antimicrobial stewardship activities including microbiological culture and susceptibility follow-up
  • 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
  • Interdisciplinary EM research
  • 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)