UofL Health, Frazier Rehabilitation Hospital - Brownsboro

UofL Health and Lifepoint Rehabilitation (formerly Kindred) have announced a joint venture to build and operate an inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.

This new 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital will be located at 5000 Chamberlain Lane, near the intersection of I-71 and I-265 in the northeast area of Jefferson County, and will serve the growing East End of Jefferson County and adjacent counties. The approximately 55,000-square-foot, two-story rehabilitation facility will have all private rooms and focus on acute rehabilitation for patients who suffer from stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, complex neurological disorders, orthopedic conditions, multiple trauma, amputation and other injuries or disorders. Large multidisciplinary therapy gymnasiums will be outfitted with the latest therapeutic technologies, including augmented reality balance training, therapy bionics and a full body exoskeleton. The hospital will also include a therapeutic courtyard with exterior amenities.

UofL Health – Frazier Rehab Institute is recognized nationally as an innovator in rehab care. For more than six decades, patients from across the world have sought out Frazier Rehab for life-enhancing treatments and therapies. The new facility is expected to help manage the growing needs of the region and will free up access to the array of specialty programs at its downtown location with one common goal – helping people of all ages with disabilities reach their fullest potential in physical and cognitive functioning.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Pharmacy Technician assists the pharmacists by preparing medications, performing routine duties, delivering medications, and assisting with clerical functions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Prepares patient drug orders
• Delivers medications to medication rooms, and nursing stations as appropriate
• Reviews patient MAR of potential admissions and plans medications to be delivered to medication machines
• Restocks usable medications/IVs returned to the pharmacy
• Files medication orders
• Assists the pharmacist with audits
• Completes assigned unit inspections
• Restocks automated medication dispensing machines
• Communicates stock utilization and ordering needs, and assists with ordering inventory and supplies
• Checks medication expiration dates and alerts pharmacist when needed
• Compounds and labels extemporaneous liquid and solid products for patients according to procedure
• Answers telephone and processes requests according to procedures
• Properly unit doses medications that do not come prepackaged
• Assists pharmacist, nursing staff, or other staff as appropriate
• Prepares sterile and non-sterile compounds per USP standards
• Other duties as assigned

• High school diploma or GED
• Registered as a pharmacy technician with the State Board of Pharmacy as required by state regulations
• Pharmacy Technician Licensure as required by state regulations