Hartford Hospital is an 819 bed, acute care, community teaching hospital offering two ASHP Pharmacy Practice Residencies beginning July 1 of each year. While both are pharmacy practice residencies, the other program has an emphasis is primary care. 

 

The Department of Pharmacy Services at Hartford Hospital provides 24-hour comprehensive pharmaceutical services.  The present staff of more than 100 employees (approximately 40 pharmacists) provides a decentralized drug distribution (Pyxis) service, complete IV admixture, hyperalimentation and chemotherapy preparation services, controlled substances distribution, and decentralized clinical monitoring and interventions. Computer Prescriber Order Entry (CPOE) is used in all inpatients areas.  The Department is responsible for providing pharmacy services to the 127-bed Children’s Hospital across the street on the night (third) shift.

 

Hartford Hospital’s Drug Information Center provides the hospital’s professional staff with general and patient-specific pharmacologic and therapeutic information.  A consultation service addressing improving pain management therapy is provided.  University of Connecticut pharmacy students complete their clerkship rotations in many different areas of Hartford Hospital.

 

The Adult Primary Care Center located at Hartford Hospital serves approximately 10,000 patients per year.  The clinic serves as a major teaching site for the UCONN internal medicine program. A total of 50 residents have a weekly continuity-of-care clinic. In addition, 4-6 medical residents, 2-3 medical students, 2 pharmacy students, and 1 pharmacy resident attend an ambulatory block rotation every month. The faculty consists of 4 full time board-certified general internal medicine physicians and 6 nurse practitioners.

 

Hartford Hospital is the principle training site for the program. The pediatric training site is at Connecticut Children's Medical Center.  The psychiatric training site is located at the Institute of Living. The PGY1 resident with emphasis in primary care may also work at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy.