Abstract
The Director's Forum series is written and edited by Michael Sanborn and Robert Weber and is designed to guide pharmacy leaders in establishing patient-centered services in hospitals and health systems. Another specific goal of this column is to address many of the key challenges that pharmacy directors currently face, while providing information to foster growth in pharmacy leadership and patient safety. This month's article describes providing immunizations in a hospital-based retail pharmacy. As the pharmacists' role in immunization evolves to one of procurement, advocacy, and immunizer, hospitals can provide a valuable public health service to patients using hospital-based retail pharmacies. Developing this program may also further develop more advanced-practice programs in patient medication education and medication therapy management.
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