Acute Care Pharmacy
This is the most common route of medication administration in the inpatient setting.
What is intravenous (IV)?
These powerful third-party companies, like CVS Caremark and Express Scripts, manage prescription drug benefits for insurers and can audit HMH pharmacies.
What are Pharmacy Benefit Managers?
Before the merger, Meridian Health was the parent company for hospitals primarily in these two coastal NJ counties.
What are Monmouth and Ocean counties?
The stressful but necessary final days of the month dedicated to finalizing our financial records and reports for leadership.
What is Month-End Close?
An AI-powered writing assistant available at HMH that helps users improve their writing in emails.
What is Grammarly?
Clinical trials management systems are used at HMH to house research studies.
What is OnCore?
Pharmacists must adjust the dose of aminoglycosides and vancomycin based primarily on this patient-specific lab value.
What is renal function (serum creatinine/CrCl or eGFR)?
This type of HMH pharmacy focuses on dispensing high-cost, complex medications for conditions like cancer or multiple sclerosis, often requiring special handling.
What is Specialty Pharmacy?
Named for a former NY Giants quarterback and his wife, this is the network's dedicated children's hospital in Hackensack.
What is the Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital?
The dreaded status of a drug when manufacturers can't meet demand, causing our supply chain analysts to scramble for therapeutic alternatives.
What is a drug shortage?
The ongoing organizational process of defining a future vision, setting long-term goals, and creating a roadmap of actions and resources.
What is Strategic Planning?
Largest research division portfolio.
What is Phase 1?
This IV medication is the preferred treatment for rapid correction of severe hypoglycemia in hospitalized patients without IV access to dextrose.
What is glucogon?
These specialized pharmacists work directly with facilities like SNFs or hospices to perform monthly medication chart reviews and support staff education.
What are consultant pharmacists?
Located in North Bergen, this medical center serves the diverse Hudson County "Gold Coast" community.
What is Palisades Medical Center?
This federal agency can show up to review our records to ensure we are fully compliant with the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
What is the HRSA (Health Reseources and Services Administration)?
A strategic process for identifying and developing employees to fill critical leadership and key roles within an organization, ensuring continuity and stability when current occupants leave, retire, or move on.
What is Succession Planning?
A clinical trial-specific log is needed for the employee to be part of the clinical trial.
What is the Delegation Log of Authority (DOA)?
The acronym "TPN" stands for this therapy that provides nutrition intravenously when patients cannot use their GI tract.
What is total parenteral nutrition?
This program collects and distributes millions of dollars of pharmaceuticals annually to pharmacies and safety-net clinics to dispense to low-income, chronically ill patients.
What is the Dispensary of Hope?
HMH partnered with this private university in South Orange to open its own School of Medicine.
What is Seton Hall University?
The three largest pharmaceutical wholesalers in the U.S. are often called this.
What are "The Big Three" (McKesson, Cardinal Health and Amerisource Bergen)?
A healthcare service that delivers a patient's new medications directly to their hospital bedside before they are discharged.
What is "Meds To Beds"?
Surprise!! Time for Pharmacy Musical Chairs!
Winner?
This reversal agent is used for life-threatening bleeding in patients receiving the anticoagulant warfarin.
What is vitamin K (phytonadione), often with fresh frozen plasma or PCC?
This compound consists of diphenhydramine, Maalox, Nystatin, and viscous lidocaine.
What is Magic Mouthwash?
The namesake of the cancer center, he was a local businessman and philanthropist who made a transformative gift to the hospital.
Who is John Theurer?
A detailed document that outlines a new pharmacy's goals, strategies, financial projections, and market analysis.
What is a Business Plan?
A single, large facility that performs pharmacy-related tasks for multiple hospitals or pharmacies within a health system.
What is a CSC, CSSC, Centralized Pharmacy Services Center?
Research Pharmacy electronic accountability system used at HMH.
What is Vestigo?