Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center
Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center
- City/Town: Houston
- State: TX
Institution Characteristics
- Community Hospital
- Comprehensive Stroke Center
- Comprehensive Cardiac 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
- 6-9 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
- 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)