The Patient Services division of our Pharmacy program is directed by Dave Hachey and provides valuable services to the community, as well as educational opportunities for our students and faculty.

• Sample Pharmacy

The residency sponsors a sample pharmacy which is a fully computerized dispensing pharmacy of all the samples that are brought to the clinic. The wealth and range of sample therapeutics available to our impecunious patients is a much appreciated service.

• Anticoagulation Clinic

The pharmacy residents run an anticoagulation clinic for all our patients who are on coumadin for DVT, pulmonary emboli and atrial fibrillation. This is very popular with the patients, provides high standards and provides a teaching opportunity for the residents to see the protocols and procedures that could be set up to do this.

• Blood Pressure Monitoring

For patients who have office hypertension, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is available to make a firm diagnosis as to whether they, in fact, need treatment or not. This has provided a useful modality for our patients.

• Refill Service

The pharmacy undergraduates assigned to the residency program work with the pharmacy faculty and residents to provide a refill service for our physicians. They’ve already investigated whether adequate lab work and adequate visitation has occurred for the medication to be refilled and for how many times. All of this prior work makes pharmacy refilling a much more appropriate and thorough process.

• Indigent Medicine Program

A number of pharmaceutical firms offer free medications for indigent patients who require them and provided need can be established and documented. There is a substantial amount of paperwork to be done in this program. Approximately 200 of our patients benefit from the indigent medicine program.

• S.E. Idaho HIV Clinic

The retroviral drugs are extremely expensive and complex, and there are specific Ryan White funds that are available to cover these pharmacotherapeutics. The pharmacy faculty, specifically under Dave Hachey, works with the residency program to obtain these medications for our patients.