Pharmacy

St. Joseph Regional Medical Center offers three licensed pharmacies; an Infusion Service at the Cancer Center, an employee pharmacy and an inpatient pharmacy. The medical center also offers an ambulatory care service.

Chemotherapy Infusion Service

Includes a team collaborative environment with physicians and nursing staff.
Provides chemotherapy to all clinic patients, including a weekly clinic in Moscow and Pullman.
Has a board certified oncology pharmacist.
Uses collaborative care agreements with the oncologists for:
- Hepatic and/or renal dosing adjustments of chemotherapy.
- Anemia management.
- Electrolyte management.
- Anticoagulation management.
- Antiemetic management.
- Mucositis management.
Develops chemotherapy regimen protocol.
Provides oncology and internal medicine consultations with clinic physicians.

Employee Pharmacy Service

Provides employee prescription care.
Offers hospice patient care with family hospice.
Provides an indigent prescription service with social services approval.
Perform formulary reviews.

Inpatient Pharmacy Service

In addition to traditional hospital distributive services, our pharmacists participate in a collaborative atmosphere with community physicians, hospitalists, nurses and other multidisciplinary team members for a team approach to pharmaceutical care. They:

Try to dispense information more than medications.
Provide physician initiated unit based pharmacy therapies:
- Patient specific total parenteral nutrition monitoring and adjusting.
- Heparin/Enoxaparin per pharmacy.
- Vancomycin monitoring and adjusting.
- Aminoglycoside monitoring and adjusting.
- Electrolytes per pharmacy.
- Additional therapeutic dosing and monitoring per physician request.
Review charts and leave progress notes for the nursing unit, including geriatric and renal dosing review.
Review MIC reports for appropriateness of current antimicrobial treatment regimen.
Have active members on multiple teams and committees including: P&T, pharmacy/nursing, critical care, infection control, discharge planning, hospice, pallative care, QA/QI, tumor board, cancer committee and patient safety.

Ambulatory Care Service

SJRMC pharmacy medication management service provides:

Anticoagulation management as part of the post operative care for the Center of Excellence Total Joint Program.
Provides outpatient dosing and management of intravenous antibiotics.