About the Pharmacy Department

The Department is composed of over two hundred pharmacists, interns, pharmacy technicians, nurses and other support staff committed to providing excellent pharmaceutical care over five separate locations. The Department has affiliations with several schools of pharmacy across the nation and serves as a clerkship site for these institutions.

The Department offers centralized IV admixture and unit-dose distribution, and decentralized clinical pharmacy services. The Department utilizes automated dispensing machines, or Pyxis, located in every patient care area. With the exception of Ballard, all remaining four campuses are staffed 24-hours-per-day, seven-days-per-week. Practice sites are located on five locations and include inpatient and outpatient services.

The Department of Pharmacy offers decentralized clinical services for Swedish's multiple specialties which includes critical/cardiac/medical/neonatal/pediatrics intensive care units, oncology, pediatrics, kidney/pancreas transplantation, obstetrics/gynecological, general medicine, surgical, renal/urology, orthopedics, neurology, orthopedic rehabilitation and sleep medicine. Swedish is the largest and most comprehensive hospital in the Pacific Northwest with 1245 licensed beds.

Our decentralized patient care area pharmacists (PCAPs) work closely with physicians, nurses and other health care workers to provide excellent patient care by monitoring and prescribing antibiotics, total parenteral nutrition, anticoagulation therapy, anemia management, renal adjustment of medications, IV to PO conversion, and other dosing services upon request. We also operate the outpatient oncology infusion service, coordinated with the Swedish Cancer Institute, and an investigational drug service.