Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer Todd Karpinski, PharmD, shared the report on LinkedIn.
Here are 10 wins from 2024:
1. Opening the Pharmacy Consolidated Service Center at the Innovation Corp.
2. Reduced Omnicell stockouts by 40%.
3. Finalized construction plans to expand pharmacy services at Fairmont Medical Center.
4. Administered the first dose of a new gene therapy for muscular dystrophy.
5. Implemented an Omnicell inventory management program at WVU Medicine’s Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, achieving net savings of $300,000.
6. Added a lead drug diversion coordinator at the system level.
7. Expanded clinical services into ambulatory clinics.
8. Implemented DrFirst, a medication management network, to improve medication history accuracy.
9. Significantly increased volumes in the system’s outpatient, specialty and home infusion pharmacies.
10. Achieved a 94% outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy intervention acceptance rate and an 82% complex outpatient antimicrobial therapy intervention acceptance rate.
