The Munson Medical Center Pharmacy
Munson Medical Center’s Pharmacy strives to uphold the hospital's mission, MHC and its partners will work together to provide superior quality care and promote community health. Our values are Excellence, Exceptional Experience, Creativity, Positivity and Teamness.
As a regional referral center and the largest hospital north of Grand Rapids, Munson Medical Center has robust inpatient and specialty pharmacy services. Forty inpatient staff pharmacists provide the services needed to care for patients in the 442-bed hospital. An additional 252 beds come under the care of Munson Medical Center Pharmacists during the evening hours and overnight via remote services to our two regional and four community hospitals.
Our pharmacy technician staff is comprised of about 50 highly skilled individuals. We offer a pharmacy technician training program for those interested in making a career in pharmacy.
Our pharmacy department model is a hybrid of both clinical and distributive roles. We believe the best clinical pharmacist has in-depth knowledge of drug distribution processes of the hospital, and the best distributive pharmacist understands the clinical considerations of the drug therapies they provide.
Inpatient services provide all aspects of drug preparation and distribution, including:
- Extemporaneous compounding, batching, packaging of bulk medications
- Filling and maintenance of automated drug cabinets
- IV medication compounding
- Medication order verification via physician order entry (POE)
- Admission medication history program
Our team of inpatient pharmacists provides hands-on patient care in the following clinical areas:
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Cardiology
- Cardiothoracic surgery
- Critical care
- Emergency medicine
- General medical units
- Neonatal intensive care
- Oncology
- Orthopedics
- Pain Management
- Pediatrics
- Stroke
- Surgery
- Home Infusion Services
Clinical responsibilities of our clinical pharmacy staff include guideline-driven drug therapy evaluation, medication reconciliation, renal and hepatic dosing adjustments, drug information questions, physician rounding, anticoagulation management, and individualized roles dependent upon the clinical area (example: dofetilide initiation, monitoring, and education by our cardiology clinical pharmacists).
A Teaching Pharmacy
Munson Medical Center is a teaching site for the Ferris State University College of Pharmacy. Our program hosts up to five, fourth-year pharmacy students who participate in a yearlong learning experience, we provide all their required rotations without having to go off site.
The PGY1 residency program is heavily invested in developing the resident’s preceptorship skills, as well as promoting the resident’s growth and development with didactic teaching and mentoring. Many of our resident preceptors are also adjunct faculty for the College of Pharmacy. The combination of our strong clinical programs and our department’s culture of education is a statement of our commitment to developing highly skilled clinicians to lead our profession into the future.