New pharmacy design

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Mon, 04/18/2016 - 18:11
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Robert A Kahns
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New pharmacy design

We are in the design process of building a new pharmacy for a psychiatric hospital (census approx. 850) and is Joint Commission accredited. We currently use Pyxis and are moving to using Cerner late this year. The current pharmacy has been in place since the mid to late 1970's. We do prepare occasional IV admixtures which mainly consist of antibiotics. The architecture firm and our management is ensuring that this facility, when complete, needs to take us into the future as well. If anyone has any design elements or safety equipment we should be including, we are open to any ideas.

Secondly, if anyone has some insight on USP 800 and how we should be thinking for its roll out in 2018, this would be also appreciated.

Thanks,
Robert

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