Assistant Director of Pharmacy Operation and Informatics

Assistant Director of Pharmacy Operation and Informatics

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NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the United States. We provide essential outpatient, inpatient and home-based services to more than one million New Yorkers every year across the city’s five boroughs. Our large health system consists of ambulatory centers, acute care centers, post-acute care/long-term care, rehabilitation programs, Home Care, and Correctional Health Services. Our diverse workforce is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality health services without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

The Assistant Director of Pharmacy Operations under the direction of the Director of Pharmacy Operations and Informatics supports the objective of delivering safe, cost‑effective and optimal medication therapy. He/she helps oversee pharmacy operations at system and site level to assure standardization, consistency and best practices. The Assistant Director attends local and system meetings to help ensure consistency and observance of corporate and system P&T policies and recommendations.

They work with corporate and site leadership to set pharmacy operation standards across the system for both Ambulatory and Acute Care Clinical Pharmacy Services, promoting standardization and advancing pharmacy practices.

The Assistant Director maintains expert knowledge of The Joint Commission (JCAHO), National Performance Goals (NPGs), Department of Public Health (DPH), American Society of Health system Pharmacists (ASHP), Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS) medication-related and pharmacy practice standards and metrics, relating them to current departmental and organizational policies and procedures.

• Assists in managing the central Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
• Involved with planning and execution of P&T agenda and material
• Coordinates with presenters to ensure proper material is received and appropriate review is performed
• Works with Clinical Pharmacy Council (EPCOT) to review all material in an unbiased manner to develop a formulary monograph for P&T presentation
• Works with IT and Epic team to facilitate the proper Epic build
• Works with procurement in assisting with all cost analysis for formulary considerations
• Ensures committee members receive all pertinent material prior to the meeting
• Performs all required follow‑up such as: working with IT to ensure proper Epic build of any new formulary addition; revisits or closes any open‑ended items; ensuring any recommendations from the committee are followed through; works on any education regarding formulary additions to help ensure proper use; maintaining and reviewing the enterprise system formulary to ensure the most cost‑effective therapies are available
• Reviews, with site pharmacy directors, pharmacy operations to help facilitate standard and consistent operations
• Assists in Clinical Pharmacy Committee to identify and implement quality improvement programs and continuous quality assurance initiatives to advance the medication use systems and promote optimal patient outcomes
• Identifies best practices and helps ensure the health system maintains the highest level of patient care
• Works with Medication Safety Council to ensure safe usage of medication throughout the health system; performs root cause analysis (RCAs) when an event occurs to prevent future occurrences; analyzes current process to reduce chances of errors; implements best practices
• Works on any clinical or operational project as deemed necessary and…