Pharmacy
In-Hospital Pharmacy Services
A Pharmacist is available onsite Monday – Friday 8:00am – 4:00pm. We are supported by offsite telepharmacy overnight, on weekends and stat holidays.
The pharmacy is responsible for overseeing the safe and effective drug distribution in the hospital, as well as being a source of drug information for health care professionals, patients and families. Pharmacy services also include consultation on physician request, medication monitoring, drug interaction checks and review of patient drug therapy.
The physicians and staff of LWHA request that patients bring all current medications to the hospital for Emergency Room visits, preoperative clinics and planned admissions. To provide the best possible medication care the health care team must know about all medications taken. This includes drugs taken by prescription and medicines purchased over the counter. On occasion patients may have to supply their own medications such as birth control tablets, eye drops, nasal sprays, vitamins and herbal products. For more information on Medication Reconciliation expand the section below.
What is medication reconciliation?
Why should we reconcile patients’ medications?
How do we reconcile medications?
The hospital staff need to get the most complete list of medications that the patient takes. Medications are not just the pills that the doctor has prescribed to you. The medications that staff will ask you about includes:
- Prescription medications: as ordered by your doctor; the ones that you are currently or actively taking. This would include any injectables, such as insulin.
- Over the counter medications: eg. Aspirin, Tylenol, allergy medication, cough medicine, and even creams or ointments.
- Vitamins / Minerals: eg. Multivitamin, calcium, iron
- Supplements: eg. omega-3, glucosamine, metamucil etc.
- Eye drops / Ear drops / Nose drops or spray: eg. visine, polysporin drops
- Inhalers
- Patches
- Medicated Creams or Medicated Ointments
- Medication samples: these may have been provided to you by your family doctor or a specialist
