Pharmacy Services

Services Provided

Pharmacy services at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (NBIMC) are responsible for the verification and distribution of all medications within the hospital. Our role is ensuring safe and effective medication use.

The Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Pharmacy Department provides 24 hour pharmacy services. Our pharmacists work on the medical floors and are easily accessible to nurses, doctors, other health-care professionals, and patients. Anticoagulation monitoring, renal dosing, antimicrobial stewardship, IV to oral medication transition, patient counseling, and therapeutic drug monitoring are some of the services that are provided by our pharmacists. We place a strong emphasis on ensuring that pharmacy is recognized for its role and impact on patient care. We monitor and highlight the interventions our pharmacists make so that pharmacy’s role is recognized both at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and throughout the system.

Clinical Services

Newark Beth Israel Pharmacy Residents Clinical services allow Newark Beth Israel Medical Center to offer specialized services for different hospital populations. These services include medical intensive care, emergency medicine, pediatrics, and solid organ transplant.

Pharmacy has a strong presence in many committees hospital-wide such as Infection Control, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Medication Safety / Medication Management, Critical Care, and those focused on diseases such as sepsis and stroke to name a few.

Technology

Pharmacist using state of the art technology at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center NBIMC is excited to offer state of the art pharmacy technology services. These include:

  • Cerner® for electronic medical records and computerized physician order entry
    • Transition to Epic Systems anticipated in October 2023
  • Pyxis ES automated dispensing systems
  • SoleSource® (formerly Pharmacy OneSource®) suite: Sentri7® clinical dashboards to flag patient care initiatives, Quantifi® documentation of pharmacist interventions, Simplifi 797®, and VeriForm®.