Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital - Fort Smith, AR

Kindred Healthcare is excited to announce our newest Joint Venture Partnership with Mercy Health at Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital in Fort Smith, AR! This will be a brand new hospital with 50 private rooms. Recently celebrating our groundbreaking, the anticipated opening will be 2 ^nd quarter of 2021. Kindred will manage day-to-day operations of Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Fort Smith. The new hospital will care for adults recovering from conditions such as stroke, neurological disease, injury to the brain or spinal cord and other debilitating illnesses or injuries. Kindred and Mercy are also partners for rehab hospitals in Oklahoma City, St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri.

With more than 20 standalone inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) across a dozen states, Kindred Hospital Rehabilitation Services (KHRS) is a partner of choice for many major hospital systems in the creation and success of joint-venture operations that outperform in both clinical and financial outcomes. We bring proven rehabilitation management and services expertise that benefits our partners as well as the nearly 50,000 IRF patients we see each year who seek to recover and get home quickly from any of a number of conditions, including stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, orthopedic injury, neurological conditions, amputation and trauma.

The Pharmacy Technician :

Will assist the pharmacists by preparing medications, performing routine duties, and by delivery of medications and assist with clerical functions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Prepares patient drug orders.
• Delivers medications to medication rooms, and nursing stations as appropriate.
• Reviews patient MAR for potential admissions and plans medications to be delivered to medication machines.
• Restocks usable medications/IVs returned to the pharmacy.
• Files medication orders.
• Assists the pharmacists with audits.
• Completes assigned unit inspections.
• Restocks automated medication dispensing machines
• Communicates stock utilization and ordering needs, and/or assists with ordering inventory and supplies.
• Checks medication expiration dates and alerts pharmacist when needed.
• Compounds and labels extemporaneous liquid and solid products for patients according to procedure.
• Answers telephone and processes requests according to procedures.
• Properly unit doses medications that do not come prepackaged.
• Assists pharmacist, and/or nursing staff with other staff as appropriate.
• Prepares sterile and non-sterile compounds per USP standards
• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• High school diploma or GED.
• Registered, or eligible to register, as pharmacy technician with the State Board of Pharmacy.
• Pharmacy Technician Certification