Pharmacy Services

The Vendor is required to provide for pharmacy services for the county correction center.
- Provide packaging at a minimum, for thirty (30) dose blister pack unit of use dose drug distribution system wherein all oral medication both in liquid and solid form (except/nitroglycerin products, reconstituted liquid antibiotics, and powders) is dispensed in unit dose packages.
- The ability to provide liquid psychotropic medications. In addition parental medications, when available from the manufacturer in unit dose form, must be supplied when requested.
- Provide for a return for credit on all blister packs, arrange for the pick-up and removal of outdated, discontinued, excess or unusable medications and Credit shall be issued to the County with the exception of controlled substances as restricted by law.
- We currently receive credits for all returned medications and we are charged no processing fee.
- Routine maintenance medication shall be re-ordered by the physician in writing as needed. Stop-order policies, unless otherwise ordered should be:
• Routine and maintenance medication – 90 days
• Antibiotics – 10 days (or as specified by the physician)
• Narcotics – 72 hours (or as specified by the physician)
• P.R.N. orders – 21 doses or (7 days) or (as specified by the physician)
• Anti-emetics – 5 days (or as specified by the physician)
• Cough and cold preparations – 5 days (or as specified by the physician)
- Liquid medications are usually patient specific as prescribed by the physician; historically, we have had such liquid medications as:
• Amoxicillin
• Apap/Codeine
• Atovaquone
• Carafate
• Chlorhexidine Gluconate 0.12%
• Hydromorphone
• Ibuprofen
• Lactulose
• Mapap
• Phenytoin
• Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate
- Provide a medication cart suitable for storing and administering medications from blister cards.
- Supply sufficient carrying cases (totes) to allow nursing staff to carry medication to second tier facilities where medication carts may be incapable of being transported.
- Provide all computer terminals, telephones and telephone lines.
- Provide Toll free lines for faxing, verifying transmissions and receiving prescription and non-prescription requests.
- Must assure that every medication dispensed is in compliance with the prescribed orders and has been carefully reviewed for labeling information by a registered pharmacist.
- Provide for emergency telephone consultation with a registered pharmacist 24 hours/day, 7 days/week.
- Provide a clinical consulting department, headed by a clinical pharmacist.
- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: May 15, 2025