Pharmacy Services
Gateways Hospital and Mental Health Center’s Pharmacy Services is committed to delivering the highest quality patient care by ensuring the safe, effective, and evidence-based use of medications. Their team strives to achieve optimal health outcomes through comprehensive medication evaluations, close collaboration with healthcare providers, and education for both patients and clinical staff.
How Gateways Delivers Exceptional Service
Gateways takes a patient-centered approach that combines expert knowledge with compassionate care. This approach includes:
- Visible Pharmacy Support: Ensuring pharmacy services are accessible and transparent to patients.
- Healthcare Collaboration: Partnering with the healthcare team for integrated and coordinated care.
- Interdisciplinary Teams: Leveraging diverse expertise to provide comprehensive patient support.
- Evidence-Based Practices: Applying current research, clinical guidelines, and quality improvement (QI) data to patient care.
- Proactive Problem-Solving: Identifying and addressing medication-related concerns early.
- Continuity of Care: Managing medication plans from admission through discharge to ensure long-term success.
Specialty Areas and Services
Gateways Pharmacy Services team provides expertise in a range of specialty areas designed to meet complex healthcare needs, including:
- Antimicrobial Stewardship: Promoting the appropriate use of antibiotics to combat resistance through continuous review of treatment effectiveness, integrating utilization review data to optimize patient outcomes.
- Drug Information Services: Offering expert guidance on medication use, safety, and efficacy while utilizing health information technology and data systems to enhance clinical decision-making and reduce errors.
- Discharge Medications: Ensuring patients have the correct medications upon discharge, supported by comprehensive inpatient utilization reviews, safety checks, and patient follow-up plans.
- Long-Acting Injectables (LAIs): Managing the initiation and coordination of extended-release treatments with QI-backed tracking systems to monitor patient adherence and clinical responses.
- Internal Medicine Support: Assisting with complex medication regimens in inpatient settings by integrating real-time data analysis and treatment planning informed by clinical outcome metrics.
- Clozapine Management: Overseeing the safe use and monitoring of clozapine therapy through structured safety audits, risk management reviews, and adherence to credentialing standards.
- Management of Antipsychotic Side Effects: Addressing conditions like metabolic syndrome caused by long-term antipsychotic use through continuous quality improvement reviews and personalized treatment adjustments.
- Medication Safety: Prioritizing the safe prescribing, dispensing, and monitoring of medications by embedding risk management protocols and utilizing ACHC accreditation standards to maintain best practices.
- Transitions of Care Gateways Pharmacy Services ensures that patients experience seamless transitions of care through integrated treatment planning, collaborative follow-up, and supportive partnerships. Gateways meets patients where they are and collaborate with community health providers, caregivers, and case managers to ensure long-term success and holistic well-being.