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 prescribing physicians and pharmacists. •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, coaching, training, and development of 2 acute care supervisors, pharmacy procurement team (4 procurement specialists), 1 instructional designer, 1 chief intern and 12 clinical interns. •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 replenishment, safety, and tracking processes associated with pharmacy medicine trays and kits, decreasing department time spent on kit and tray monitoring and maintenance by 50% • 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. • Successfully implemented ECRI Recall Monitoring to assure recall compliance met 100% execution.• Collaborated with nursing administration, co-leading hospital-wide Medication Administration forum. Addressed clinical and operational needs throughout the hospital. Successfully standardized meeting agendas to create efficiency and increase collaboration, while decreasing time to approve and implement drug conversions, product conversions and hospital-wide communication regarding updates and changes.

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 quality and compliance benchmarks to meet organizational results.• 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 consult and recommend processes to maintain compliance and decrease medication diversion within the hospital.Notable achievements in this role:• 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 standardized order forms.

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+ technician and pharmacy support staff members.• 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 staff to resolve issues and remove barriers to patient care. Notable achievements while in the position have included:- Co-Chair the Utilization Management Committee and Pharmacy Quality Committee that has produced millions of dollars saved and a 5-star rating for the Kaiser Permanente Colorado region. - Serve as a member of the Drug Utilization Action Team which has reduced drug spend. - Serve as a Pharmacy Compliance Committee Operations representative, responsible for the development of an opioid escalations policy, that has produced a decrease in patient opioid utilization.- Implemented Lean principles to drive a 34-point improvement in J.D. Powers Member Satisfaction Scores.- Coached leaders and motivated a number of teams to reduce prescription processing times by on average 7 minutes. - Developed 7+ employees into leadership positions with continuous improvement and lean management philosophies and skillsets. - Led standard work, daily huddles, visual and idea management systems on a department-level which has resulted in improved coordination of care for 170,000 patients and unprecedented collaboration between unionized pharmacy staff and management groups.

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 underprivileged individuals within the community. • 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 prescriptions to underprivileged individuals within the community. • 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 Monitoring Cart Committee Member- Dispense but Not Sold Committee Member- Innovations Summit Committee Member

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