Becker's Healthcare July 31, 2024
Advocate Health, a system with 68 hospitals across six states, recently surveyed its pharmacists to uncover areas of improvement and differences in opinion, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
To care for nearly 6 million patients every year, the system employs about 3,700 pharmacists, the ASHP wrote in a July 30 article. Roughly half of this workforce answered the survey, and from those responses, Advocate selected 28 delegates to refine statements for pharmacy’s pillars of practice.
Kersten Weber Tatarelis, PharmD, Advocate’s vice president of enterprise clinical pharmacy operations, said the health system is focused on three pillars: innovative models of clinical care delivery, transitions in care and clinical decision support.
The Charlotte, N.C.-based organization is the...