Sarah Bow, Pharmd Email & Phone Number

Aurora, Colorado, United States

Responsible for planning, implementation, oversight and evaluation of the Children’s Hospital Colorado drug diversion prevention program to ensure compliance with internal policies and applicable federal, state, and local regulations.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Providing guidance, expertise and technical assistance to pharmacies approved by Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, to develop, utilize, and expand collaborative practice agreements established between.
• Developing training for pharmacists to increase reimbursement under Colorado Medicaid and commercial payers for pharmacist services.
• Promoting the adoption and use of the existing statewide protocol for smoking cessation, and the statin statewide protocol.

Greater Denver Area

• Provided leadership for acute care pharmacy in a level 1 trauma safety net hospital. Areas of oversight included central pharmacy, sterile compounding, procurement and investigational drug studies related to hiring.
• Developed standard operating procedures to meet compliance requirements and create efficient work practices across the department.
• Other responsibilities included project management and department metric creation, monitoring and reporting.Notable achievements in this role:
• Appointed by department director as project manager over implementation and roll-out of MedEx TraySafe Monitoring System. Project met expectations, completed early and allowed the department to automate the.
• Lead development of new Acute Care Pharmacy Procurement the team. Successfully coached team to implement standard day supply on hand quantities based on actual usage, while reducing quantity on hand by 40K per month.
• Standardized medication and product ordering procedures to reduce ordering time by 50%, while creating a clean, organized, labeled and clutter-free warehouse environment.

Greater Denver Area

• Provided inpatient pharmacy and sterile compounding leadership related to hiring, oversight, coaching, training and development of 40+ technician staff, while developing standard operating procedures and implementing.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Candidate- Cohort 6
• Compliance Liaison-Pharmacy Representative-Appointed by Vice President of the Department of Pharmacy to represent the Department of Pharmacy. Partnering with the Children’s Hospital Colorado Compliance Department to.
• Development of shift reference guides to standardize and optimize technician workflow, resulting in increased efficiency and employee satisfaction during technician shifts.
• Successfully partnering with hospital simulation lab leadership to optimize ordering templates to decrease time to fill simulation medication orders by 50% and increase accuracy of orders placed by utilizing.

Pharmacy Operations

• Provide comprehensive pharmacy department leadership in terms of the hiring, oversight and training and development of anywhere from 4-8 outpatient pharmacies, 7+ pharmacy supervisors, 30+ clinical pharmacists and 60+.
• Leverage experience in workflow development, standardization and analytics to deliver positive organizational results.
• Implement a focus on continuously improved supervisor and staff culture to drive improvements in the patient experience and decrease the likelihood of errors for the 170,000+ members served.
• Maintained open lines of communication/collaboration with chief of physicians, medical office building administrators, physicians, nursing supervisors, clinical pharmacists, nursing staff, pharmacy leaders and pharmacy.

Denver, CO

• Provided comprehensive leadership for the After-Hours Care Pyxis Implementation Work Group.

Multiple Denver, CO Kaiser Permanente Operations Pharmacies

• Served as the chair of the pharmacy department’s duties and vaccinations for Kaiser Permanente Neighbors in Health in Denver.- Managed the orders, scheduling, staffing and workflow for administering 600+ vaccines to.
• Chaired the pharmacy department’s duties and vaccinations for Kaiser Permanente Martin Luther King Day events.- Managed orders, scheduling, staffing and workflow for the administration of 500+ vaccines and 70.
• Developed and implemented the draft for a Pharmacy Department return policy in 2009. Served on the following Kaiser Permanente committee’s:- The Pharmacy Flu Committee Co-Chair- Regional Committee Member- Emergency.

Denver, CO

• Served as the Isotretinoin Prescription Monitoring program (IPLEDGE) trainer for the Kaiser Permanente Float Pool and the Aurora Centrepoint Pharmacy staff.
• Added valued input while serving as a member of the Pharmacy Department Continuing Education Committee, 2005 – 2007.
• Co-represented pharmacy operations at the Kaiser Permanente Quarterly New Physician Orientation, 2005 – 2006.
• Delivered an engaging, highly effective technician continuing education presentation for Kaiser Permanente technicians in October 2005.

Doctor Of Pharmacy - Pharmd, Pharmacy

Activities and Societies: Phi Delta Chi

Doctor Of Pharmacy - Pharmd, Pharmacy

Activities and Societies: Phi Delta Chi