RWJBarnabas Health Consolidated Pharmacy Services

RWJBarnabas Health Consolidated Pharmacy Services (CPS) is a wholly owned pharmacy service company of RWJBarnabas Health. It is a centralized pharmacy providing system hospitals with quality sterile products. It was created to help control costs for the system by consolidating job functions, reducing waste and passing on just costs to the system hospitals. RWJBarnabas Health Consolidated Pharmacy Services began in 2004 providing TPN for both adult and NICU inpatients. In 2009, RWJBarnabas Health Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy Services added compounding small and large volume sterile medications to its services, continuously adding products for the system hospitals upon request. In 2013, it started providing barcoded repacking services for oral medications that are not available in unit dose as part of a strategic plan to barcode medications in preparation for converting to bedside barcode medication administration at all of our acute care facilities. Pharmacy also provides non-sterile hazardous compounds for system patients.

CPS has added Code Cart Centralization to the services offered. After the Clinical Council standardized the code cart contents, CPS will now provide code cart services, where we fill and replace outdated items for each code cart. We use Inmar software to track lot and expiration dates for each tray. We can now track what cart each tray goes into and the location of each cart. RWJBarnabas Health Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy Services has been leading the sterile products collaborative, standardizing policies and monitoring USP 795/797/800 compliance.

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