Kosair Children's Hospital Department of Pharmacy

Kosair Children’s Hospital is part of Norton Healthcare, the Louisville area’s leading hospital and health care system and second largest private employer. The not-for-profit system – the largest in Kentucky and rated one of the top 100 integrated health care delivery systems in the country – includes four hospitals and eight Norton Immediate Care Centers .

Norton Healthcare has access to more than 2,000 total physicians on its medical staff and more than 200 employed medical providers at some 50 locations in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. We are the region's second largest private employer. Specialties include family practice; internal medicine; oncology; obstetrics/gynecology; maternal-fetal medicine; orthopaedic and hand surgery; pediatrics; and pediatric orthopaedics.

The Department of Pharmacy at Kosair Children’s employs 33 pharmacists and technicians, including a director of pharmacy, a clinical coordinator, eight clinical pharmacists, two pharmacy residents, six dispensing pharmacists, one inventory technician and 14 pharmacy technicians, as well as site-based pharmacy staffing in pediatric intensive care, neonatal intensive care, hematology/oncology, infectious disease, and medical/surgical areas.

The Kosair Children’s Hospital pharmacy provides 24-hour services for patients, including, but not limited to, therapeutic drug monitoring/evaluation, parenteral nutrition, extensive involvement in research and collaboration on studies, pain consults, medication reconciliation consults and various clinical consults.