The Pharmacy Department of Sanya Central Hospital, as a crucial pharmaceutical department in the hospital, adheres to the patient-centered concept with rational drug use at its core. Upholding the work objectives of "ensuring drug quality and supply, deepening pharmaceutical services, and strengthening the construction of pharmaceutical disciplines", it has established a working mode featuring "informatization, automation, scientificity, and service orientation" to improve the quality and efficiency of pharmaceutical work, standardize clinical drug use, and promote rational drug use.
The Pharmacy Department currently has 46 staff members, including 1 chief pharmacist, 4 associate chief pharmacists, 24 associate supervisor pharmacists, 10 pharmacists, 2 pharmacy technicians, and 7 clinical pharmacists. Among them, 11 have a master's degree and 29 have a bachelor's degree.
In line with the actual needs of the hospital and clinical practice, it has departments such as the drug warehouse, inpatient pharmacy, outpatient and emergency pharmacy, traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy, large infusion warehouse, clinical pharmacy room, and pharmaceutical laboratory. Currently, it is actively preparing for the construction of an intravenous drug dispensing center.
In recent years, it has actively implemented the spirit of the Pharmacy Administration and Therapeutics Committee, carried out the national centralized procurement policy, strictly controlled drug procurement, continuously promoted standardized and rational drug use, reduced drug costs, and ranked among the top in Hainan Province in terms of the compliance rate of centralized procurement and the control of the proportion of drug costs in total medical costs.
It has actively promoted the automation construction of pharmacies. It is the first in southern Hainan to use an intelligent dispensing system and an intelligent drug storage and retrieval system, achieving fully automatic single-dose oral drug dispensing, etc. This has controlled drug cost input, reduced drug wastage, realized accurate drug quantity management and safety management, alleviated the work intensity of pharmacists, saved manpower, improved the work efficiency and quality of pharmacies, and enhanced the image of hospital pharmacies.
It has continuously advanced the informatization of hospital pharmacy administration. The hospital is a pioneer in southern Hainan to achieve intelligent prescription review. Information operations have been realized in prescription and medical order review, pharmaceutical care, pharmaceutical consultations, the use reminder and restriction of antibacterial drugs and adjuvant drugs, and drug classification management, implementing the concepts of scientific, dynamic, and refined management. Currently, it is actively implementing the application of a refined drug management system in our hospital, realizing traceable management of the entire drug process, greatly reducing dispensing errors, and improving work efficiency.
It has continuously deepened the characteristic services of clinical pharmacy. In 2023, the hospital was accredited as a Clinical Pharmacist Standardized Training Base by the Chinese Medical Association. The department now has 2 training instructors specializing in cardiovascular and gastroenterology, and 7 undergraduate teaching instructors. The department actively provides ward-based pharmacist services, including pharmaceutical rounds, focused pharmaceutical care for critical patients, medical order reviews, and medication consultations. It has also established a rational medication consultation clinic for chronic disease patients, serving over 100 patients annually. The department actively promotes pharmaceutical science outreach in southern Hainan. Between 2023 and 2024, it conducted over 30 pharmaceutical science popularization activities targeting medical institutions, communities, schools, and local media, earning recognition as the Sanya Pharmaceutical Science Outreach Base. The department also launched the "Pharmacy Horizons" public platform to widely disseminate scientific medication knowledge. Efforts are underway to develop home-based pharmacist services, integrated medical pharmacy clinics, and specialized medication clinics for specific diseases.
It promotes the construction of the pharmaceutical laboratory and pharmaceutical research work. The pharmacy laboratory is developing projects such as therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) and genetic testing to support personalized medication. Currently, the hospital offers folic acid genetic testing to help pregnant women adjust folic acid dosage and timing effectively. Plans are in place to expand TDM for immunosuppressants, antiepileptics, antimicrobials, and antipsychotics, enabling precision and personalized medication. Over the past five years, the department has secured 4 provincial and municipal research projects, 1 provincial science popularization project, and published over 10 core scientific papers, including 5 SCI-indexed articles.
