The UAMS Medical Center provides patient-centered, cost-effective care through a health care system enriched by and committed to education and research.

The pharmacy staff will provide a level of pharmaceutical care that meets the needs and expectations of our patients in such a manner as to promote their health and well-being while helping to achieve the academic and financial goals of UAMS.

The pharmacy department provides comprehensive pharmacy services to all areas of the hospital, including all ambulatory care areas, where patients are treated with medications. Emphasis is placed on services to adult patients and to newborn infants, specifically those treated in the intensive care nursery. Service to children is provided when needed as stated in hospital policy.

To provide service efficiently, the pharmacy maintains a surgery satellite as well as a central dispensing area for handling the IV service and all medication dispensing. Comprehensive services include purchasing, stocking and dispensing of all drug products, evaluation of medication use and dosing on an individual basis for each patient, consultation with the physician or nurse regarding appropriate plan of care regarding drug use, family and patient education and counseling, discharge planning, implementing and helping to evaluate cost containment or drug therapy initiatives of the P&T Committee, and pharmacy / medical/ nursing student education.

A comprehensive IV additive service is provided including Total Parenteral Nutrition and chemotherapy preparation. An automated dispensing system for provision of routine medications in a unit dose package allows immediate access to medication doses after order entry. Assessment and provision of patient needs for pharmaceutical care are initiated with patient contact and nursing and medical staff consultation. The pharmacy takes a pro-active role in the areas of pharmacokinetics, nutrition, oncology, surgery, bone marrow transplant, surgical and medical intensive care, women’s health , neonatology, geriatrics, recuperative care and ambulatory care.

The pharmacy has a packaging and compounding department with substantial quality control parameters in place including a laboratory for assay work. Monthly quality assurance checks of all drug storage areas in the hospital are performed including but not limited to drug dating , refrigeration storage, and emergency drug supplies. The department also exercises all authority for maintaining control of drug products which are regulated by governmental agencies or are being used in humans in an investigational protocol.

The Out Patient Center (OPC) pharmacy provides outpatient prescription services to ambulatory patients who receive their medical care at UAMS as well as UAMS students or employees and their immediate families. A satellite pharmacy in the ACRC provides medications for patient treatments in the chemotherapy treatment area. IV Admixture services are provided for parenterals and sterile products required for patient care within the ACC and the ACRC.