OHSU Department of Pharmacy Services
The OHSU Department of Pharmacy Services accepts responsibility for providing safe, rational and cost-effective drug therapy for all OHSU patients by working directly with them and the other health care providers involved in their care.

Pharmacy Services
Patient evaluation, including identifying potential and actual medication-related problems and preventing and resolving medication-related problems, is provided by OHSU decentralized clinical pharmacist specialists and College of Pharmacy faculty. Clinical specialties include: solid organ transplantation, pediatrics/neonatology, critical care, infectious diseases, geriatric assessment clinic, nutritional support, pharmacokinetics/renal replacement therapy, outpatient DVT service, outpatient parenteral treatment unit, and oncology/bone marrow transplantation. The department also operates a drug information service, research pharmacy service, and a drug policy program.

A centralized distribution model serves the medical/surgical population and medical/surgical specialties. Pharmacists in these areas provide medication profile review and front-line drug information services. Redesign plans include providing more clinical services decentrally. Automated dispensing technology is used in most patient care areas.

The Department of Pharmacy Services moved into a new facility in October 1997. A Class 100,000 clean room and the majority of inpatient pharmacy operations and offices are now located in the Hatfield Research Center building. Mixed clinical/distributive satellite pharmacies in Doernbecher Children's Hospital, critical care and the operating rooms provide service to those areas.

Outpatient prescriptions and patient care are provided from three on-site pharmacies serving adult outpatients, pediatric outpatients/discharge patients, and ophthalmology patients. Automated dispensing technology is used in the main outpatient pharmacy. A Medications Assistance Program is available to help medically indigent patients obtain their medications.

OHSU pharmacists serve as preceptors to in-state and out-of-state pharmacy students, technicians in training programs, and pharmacy residents in the Portland Metro area.

The Department of Pharmacy Services operates two postgraduate training programs: a pharmacy practice residency and a specialty residency in drug information/ drug policy.