Department of Pharmacy

The Department of Pharmacy provides a wide range of pharmaceutical services to 4 hospitals and an ambulatory care network. These services include:

• Satellite pharmacies in Oncology, Critical Care, Pediatrics, Medicine, Surgery, Cardiology and Operating Room
• Clinical pharmacy services
• Sterile and non-sterile production
• Investigational drug service

The Pharmacy staff is comprised of 103 pharmacists, 97 pharmacy specialists (technicians), 11 pharmacy interns, 10 support personnel (clerical and stockworkers) and 41 pharmacist managers including 6 executive managers, 14 operational managers, 16 clinical pharmacy managers and 5 pharmacy residents.

Our department is dedicated to Pharmaceutical Care focused on achieving positive patient outcomes through drug therapy.  This includes:

• providing high quality pharmaceutical services that foster the efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness of drug use;
• servicing the needs of our patients and staff by providing drug information to both patients and medical professionals;
• educating and training of future pharmacists by promoting teaching internships and residency programs;
• involvement in cutting-edge scientific research programs, working to better understand how the human body functions and alleviating human diseases;
• promoting pharmacy as an essential component of the health-care team.

We offer our pharmacy services to the Moses, Weiler and North Divisions, the Children's Hospital at Montefiore as well as outpatients and emergency department patients.

Did you know?

• The MMC Pharmacy dispensed over 2 million medications to hospitalized patients in 2009
• The Pharmacy at Montefiore boasts the first pharmacy residency in New York City (1968)
• The New York State Council of Health-system Pharmacists represents New York State pharmacists who practice in ambulatory, long term, managed, home and acute care settings. There are approximately 2,000 NYSCHP members along with a well-established network of leaders serving on the NYSCHP Board of Directors, NYSCHP committees and chapter officers in the eleven local chapters in NYS. Current Montefiore leaders have held leadership positions in the Council as well as  other local, state and national pharmacy professional organizations. 
• Pharmacists at Montefiore published over 20 manuscripts, abstracts or poster presentations in 2009