What We Do

Management Services

Hunter Pharmacy Services, Inc. provides a cost effective means to alleviate the burden of pharmacy management. We provide a high quality operation compliant with all regulatory agencies and strive to reduce costs while establishing patient safety as our primary goal.

Types of Agreements:

• Monthly Fee Plus Salaries: A monthly fee is based upon the size of the hospital or census. Actual salary and benefit cost of personnel are passed through to the facility.
• Sliding Scale Program: This includes a pass through for personnel plus a sliding scale management fee based on average monthly census.
• Purchasing Program: Hunter Pharmacy Services, Inc. owns the inventory and only charges the hospital for unit use. There are no inventory carrying costs for the hospital. Salaries can be passed through at Hunter Pharmacy Services, Inc's cost.
• Shared Savings: This includes a monthly management fee and a mutually developed shared savings program. Together we will benchmark your current pharmacy cost and develop a pharmacy cost target for our agreement. The target may be based on patient days, cases, adjusted patient days, or adjusted cases.
• Customized Agreements: We will work with you to design a program best suited to your needs and budget.
• Flexibility: All of our agreements can be designed so that supportive pharmacy personnel remain on your payroll or become employees of Hunter Pharmacy Services, Inc..

Consulting Services

Hunter Pharmacy Services offers consulting services that will prepare your hospital pharmacy for inspections by regulatory agencies and JCAHO surveys. We assess medication management systems, clinical programs, financial data, and existing practices to improve your pharmacy operations and reduce costs.

Whether Management or Consulting Services are utilized, we strive to improve pharmacy services by providing excellent resources in the following areas:

• Personnel
  Staff recruitment, training, and support
  Background and licensure verification
  Inservice Education
  Competence Assessments and Credentialing
  Annual Job Performance Evaluations
• Financial Management
  Charge master management
  Inventory management
  Purchasing Analysis
  Contract Compliance
  Budget Preparation and Adherence
  Cost Reduction Strategies
• Clinical Services
  On call Clinical Pharmacist Support
  Clinical Program and System Development
  Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee Oversight
  Formulary Management
  Automatic Therapeutic Substitutions
  Kinetic Consulting
  IV to PO Conversions for Cost Effective Therapy
  Newsletters
  Pharmacy and Nursing Staff Inservices
• Ensured Regulatory Compliance
  State Board of Pharmacy regulations
  CMS Interpretive Guidelines
  JCAHO Standards
  IV Admixture and USP Chapter 797 requirements
  Patient Safety Initiatives
  Risk Assessments
  Controlled Substance Audits and System Improvements
• Improved Operational Efficiencies
  New Hospital Pharmacies Start up
  Redesign of existing Hospital Pharmacies
  Improved Labor Efficiencies
  Provision of Pharmacy Computer Software
  Provision of interfaced Clinical Software
  Automated Dispensers integration
  Computerized Order Entry
  Bedside Bar Code Scanning