AdventHealth Orlando PGY1

AdventHealth Orlando (AHO) is a 1,194-bed acute care community teaching hospital and the Central Florida Division’s flagship campus. AHO boasts nationally and internally recognized programs and serves as a major tertiary referral hospital for much of the Southeast, the Caribbean and Latin America. The organization has an expansive research portfolio with more than 500 clinical trials in progress. Located on a lush tropical lakeside campus in Orlando, Florida, these institutions treat over 32,000 inpatients and 125,000 outpatients annually. AdventHealth Orlando is home to nationally recognized institutes for Heart, Lung, and Vascular; Diabetes; Cancer; and Orthopedics. AdventHealth Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute is the busiest Cardiovascular Center in the nation providing cardiac care to Medicare patients. The AdventHealth Cancer Institute treats more newly diagnosed cancer patients than any other health care system in the state. AdventHealth Orlando houses one of the largest Emergency Departments and the largest cardiac catheterization labs in the country. AdventHealth Orlando ranked No. 1 in the Orlando metro area among U.S. News’ 2024-2025 edition of Best Hospitals. It is the 14th consecutive year the hospital has topped the rankings in greater Orlando. Affiliated with seven other acute care programs throughout Central Florida and twenty-four through the state of Florida, AdventHealth Orlando is one of the largest Medicare providers in the United States. AdventHealth Orlando has a long-standing history of excellence in patient care and provides a robust portfolio of specialty services as well as cutting edge clinical programs to highly complex patient populations.

The AdventHealth Orlando Pharmacy Department is automated with decentralized unit-based dispensing cabinets throughout all patient care areas. The department has a USP 797 and 800 compliant clean rooms which provide hazardous and non-hazardous sterile products to patient care areas. The hospital is equipped with computerized physician order entry and utilizes an electronic medication administration record. The pharmacy offers a wide variety of clinical services in collaboration with healthcare teams for the cure, arrest, and prevention of disease and/or symptoms of disease. Members of the pharmacy staff provide decentralized pharmaceutical care and patient education throughout AdventHealth Orlando every day to ensure safe, accurate, and cost-effective medication therapy. Pharmacists, technicians, and residents work with institutional stakeholders, physicians, and allied professionals to improve the long-term health of acute care patients and the community. Rich traditions of practice and evidence-based excellence serve as the fundamental principles of the clinical programs and pharmacy services at AdventHealth Orlando. Comprehensive pharmaceutical care is incorporated throughout the institution via clinical and operational practice and interdisciplinary teamwork. Together pharmacists, technicians, and residents work collaboratively with physicians, nurses, and key stakeholders to detect, mitigate, and prevent medication adverse events and to ensure medication use processes are aligned with national evidence-based best practices and regulatory standards.

The Department of Pharmacy services include:

• Admission Medication Reconciliation
• Colony Stimulating Factor Management
• Criteria for Use
• Discharge Medication Reconciliation
• Dose Optimization
• Formulation Optimization for Enteral Routes
• Glycemic Management
• IV Acid Suppression Therapy (PPI to H2RA)
• IV to Enteral Conversion
• Ketogenic Diet – Medication Assessment
• Parenteral Nutrition
• Pharmacokinetics
• Post-Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Review
• Potassium Channel Blocker Review
• Pulmonary Hypertension
• REMS Medication Review
• Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
• Therapeutic Interchange
• Warfarin