Our Mission
To provide excellence and leadership in patient care, research and teaching.
Our Vision
Through the activities of our members, all patients at Vancouver Acute will receive pharmaceutical care exceeding the standards established by the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists and the B.C. College of Pharmacists.
The academic role of the pharmacy department will continue to expand to facilitate the training of future members.
Research activities will continue to increase and these efforts will complement the provision of patient care services.
In general, our members will establish themselves as an authority on the majority of pharmacotherapeutic decisions that occur at Vancouver Acute.
About Us
We are the largest hospital pharmacy department in the province of British Columbia and provides distributional and clinical services to the following hospital sites: Vancouver General Hospital, UBC Hospital, and GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre. A large staff of dedicated pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacy assistants provide pharmaceutical care to patients in the institution.
The department employs pharmacists who perform distributional and clinical duties as well as pharmacists with advanced clinical and supervisory roles. Pharmacists work in specialized areas such as Bone Marrow Transplantation, Solid Organ Transplantation, Clinical Drug Research, Ambulatory Care, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Infectious Diseases, Emergency Medicine, Trauma, and Renal Dialysis.