Acute Care Pharmacy
This is the maximum recommended acetaminophen dose per day for most hospitalized adults.
What is 4 grams?
This non-profit organization provides accreditation and certification for various healthcare organizations and products to ensure they meet high standards of quality and safety.
What is the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC)?
As of 2023, Hackensack Meridian Health operates this many hospitals across New Jersey.
What is 18?
The number of times a pharmacy's inventory is sold and replaced over a specific period is a key indicator of efficiency.
What is Inventory Turnover Rate?
The project management software that currently tracks all network pharmacy projects at HMH is available free to all HMH users.
What is Asana?
The President of Academics, Research, and Innovation at HMH.
Who is Dr. Ihor Sawczuk?
In sepsis management, guidelines recommend giving broad-spectrum antibiotics within this many hours of recognition.
What is 1 hour?
A financial metric that measures a company’s core operating profitability by excluding the effects of financing, taxes, and the write-off of intangible assets.
What is EBITA?
This phrase is often used in HMH's branding to describe its primary mission and geographic focus.
What is "Keeping New Jersey Healthy"?
This business strategy involves a pharmacy joining a larger group to leverage collective buying power and get better contract terms.
What is joining a GPO (Group Purchasing Organization) or PSAO?
Conserving fine resources, maintaining ecological balance, and fostering conditions where humans and nature can thrive in harmony.
What is "Sustainability"?
Within the HMH Research Division, the main source of funding.
What are pharmaceutical sponsor-driven trials?
This electrolyte abnormality is commonly seen in hospitalized patients who receive loop diuretics like furosemide.
What is hypokalemia (low potassium)?
A technique where the smallest quantity of an ingredient is added first, followed by successively larger amounts of other ingredients to achieve a homogenous mixture.
What is a Geometric Dilution?
HMH is the official healthcare partner of this MetLife Stadium-based NFL team.
Who are the New York Giants?
This shared scorecard, which everyone on our team contributes to, tracks the financial impact of our cost-saving and process improvement initiatives.
What is the Value Capture Scorecard?
A company founded to disrupt the traditional prescription drug market by eliminating middlemen and exorbitant markups, aiming to make essential, often life-saving, medications more affordable and accessible for everyone, regardless of insurance status.
What is the Mark Cuban Cost Plus or Mar Cuban Cost Plus Drugs?
As a member of HMH, founded to leverage the vast clinical resources to foster a unique translational ecosystem where scientists, clinicians, and life science companies collaborate to rapidly move breakthrough science into clinical practice and improve patient outcomes.
What is the CDI (Center for Discovery & Innovation)?
This medication is the antidote for opioid overdose and is often kept in crash carts in hospitals.
What is naloxone?
The general sterile garbing order.
What are shoe covers, hair/beard covers, face masks, hand-washing/drying gloves, gowns, and sterile gloves (in the clean area)?
The year the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine welcomed its first class of students.
What is 2018?
This Google-powered tool visualizes key team metrics, including our "Rx Pump Compliance KPI," "Ivent Utilization Summary," and whether a prescription was e-prescribed or printed.
What is Looker (or our Looker Dashboards)?
A healthcare IT company used at HMH, whose software streamlines workflows for providers by offering medication data, enhancing patient engagement through personalized messages, and integrating with existing Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to improve patient safety and outcomes.
What is "DrFirst"?
The pharmaceutical company co-developed by this sponsor and the NIH, in which HMH participated and enrolled patients for the COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial.
Who is Moderna?
This high-alert medication requires use of the "five rights" of medication administration and often an independent double-check due to its narrow therapeutic index and risk of hypoglycemia.
What is insulin?
Formally known as the “donut hole”, features deductible, initial coverage, and catastrophic coverage phases.
What is the Medicare Coverage Gap?
To expand its footprint in convenient care, HMH has a strong partnership with this large network of urgent care centers.
What is CityMD?
This 2013 act requires pharmacies to trace prescription drugs from the manufacturer to the dispenser to prevent counterfeiting.
What is the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA)?
One of the Four Objectives of the HMH Network Pharmacy Strategic Framework.
What is "Work Like One Organization", "Affordable care Via A sustainable Business Model", "Human-Centered & Accessible Care", "Lead Innovations & Quality Outcomes"?
Trials providing access to unapproved drugs or biologics for a patient with serious conditions who have no other treatment options and cannot participate in a clinical trial.
What is Expanded Access Trials?