The Department is composed of over 360 pharmacists, interns, pharmacy technicians, nurses and other support staff committed to providing excellent pharmaceutical care over five (5) separate campuses. The Department has affiliations with several schools of pharmacy across the nation and serves as a clerkship site for these institutions.
The Department offers centralized IV admixture and unit-dose distribution, and decentralized clinical pharmacy services. The Department utilizes automated dispensing machines, or Pyxis, located in every patient care area, and bar coding, both for tracking the mixing and checking of the medication by pharmacy and the administration of the medication by nursing. All campuses are staffed 24-hours-per-day, seven-days-per-week. Practice sites are located on five (5) campuses and include inpatient and outpatient services.
The Department of Pharmacy offers clinical services for Swedish's multiple specialties which include addiction recovery, cardiology, congestive heart failure, emergency medicine, cardiovascular/critical/medical/neonatal/neurocritical/pediatrics/surgical intensive care units, general medicine, general pediatrics, general surgery, high risk obstetrics/gynecological, inpatient and outpatient oncology, liver/kidney/pancreas/stem cell transplantation, neurology, orthopedics, psychiatry, renal/urology, telemetry, and sleep medicine. Swedish is the largest and most comprehensive hospital in the Pacific Northwest with 1245 licensed beds.
Our Ambulatory Care specialty pharmacists also provide direct patient care and prescribe under multiple authority protocols in multiple clinics across the Puget Sound area, including Swedish Medical Group (our Primary Care Clinics), Anticoagulation, and our unique Pharmacotherapy (i.e. multiple sclerosis, rheumatology, bone health, migraine). Through our PGY1 Residency Program, we also provide direct patient care in our unique Geriatric Clinic on our First Hill Campus.
