Our Pharmacy Department
Our Department
The inpatient pharmacy at MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center services specialty populations including intensive care, step-down, emergency medicine, general medicine/surgery, cardiology, oncology, pediatrics, and obstetrics. Pharmacists at MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center are integrated members of the interdisciplinary medical team, working collaboratively with other health care colleagues to provide pharmacotherapy recommendations with intent to achieve optimal patient outcomes across the continuum of care.
Pharmacists complete centralized order verification and drug distribution with the assistance of Pyxis and decentralized clinical services. Under several Pharmacy and Therapeutic (P&T) Committee-approved policies and practice agreements, pharmacists independently manage total parenteral nutrition, therapeutic drug monitoring of select medications (e.g. warfarin, vancomycin), intravenous to enteral conversion, renal dosing adjustment, and Emergency Department culture follow-up.
Quick Facts:
125 Inpatient Employees (55 pharmacists, 3 residents, 40 technicians, 5 interns, 18 medication history technicians, 4 inventory technicians)
21 board-certified pharmacists
3 outpatient pharmacies
Mission: Deliver safe, evidence-based pharmaceutical care in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, as well as patients, to improve health outcomes in our community.
Vision: Be innovative and sustainable in how we provide safe, personalized patient care. We will optimize our most valuable resource, our staff, to deliver cutting edge, evidence-based therapy as part of the interdisciplinary team.
Our Organization
MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center is a 589-bed community teaching hospital and is one of the Midwest’s largest referral centers, offering a variety of specialty services that are unique to Iowa and the region. It has a 56-bed Adult and Pediatric Emergency department with approximately 60,000 patient visits annually. MercyOne Des Moines is a Level II Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center, Accredited Chest Pain Center, Primary Stroke Center, and has medical residency programs in internal medicine, family medicine, general surgery, and psychiatry, as well as a cardiology fellowship.
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 25 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 88 hospitals, 131 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 125 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. Based in Livonia, Michigan, its annual operating revenue is $20.2 billion with $1.2 billion returned to its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs.
