Michael D. Brown is the vice president of Managed Services at Cardinal Health. He has cultivated more than 20 years of experience in healthcare, the majority of which has been focused on helping hundreds of hospitals across the United States to leverage their pharmacies as strategic assets, by implementing proven-successful best practices in pharmacy management, pharmacy utilization, staffing and workflow.
Hospital executives should rethink the immediate impulse to achieve savings by cutting pharmacy jobs and instead focus on fixing this integral part of a hospital system’s functionality.