March 05, 2025

Our Convenient Retail Pharmacy in Lexington, KY

Kristina Ryan Pharm D
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Here at Baptist Health, we have a full retail pharmacy that provides many services to our patients.

For example, we offer vaccinations, including flu, COVID, RSV, shingles, and more. We also perform medication therapy management. So we look at all of the medications that a patient's taking and make sure that they work well together and there's no interactions.

Meds2Beds is a service that we currently offer to three departments. We bring the medications to wherever their room is, and it's really nice for patients before they leave the hospital to have their meds in hand. So if they have questions or their family has questions, we can go over that with them. We can go over interactions, side effects, just to make them more comfortable taking the medication and hopefully making them more adherent.

We look at the patient from start to finish. So we really try to take care of all of their pharmacy needs. We can give them more personalized care. If there's a barrier to, medication adherence like cost, we can try to save them some money by signing them up for a co pay card through the manufacturer.

If the medication's too expensive, we can maybe change it to something different that's still within the same therapeutic class. Ultimately, our goal is to make the patient comfortable and, that the process of picking up medication and taking medication is is easy.
Our Convenient Retail Pharmacy in Lexington, KY Healthtalk Transcript

Kristina Ryan, PharmD, Pharmacy Manager
Baptist Health Community Pharmacy

Kristina Ryan, PharmD:

Here at Baptist Health, we have a full retail pharmacy that provides many services to our patients. For example, we offer vaccinations, including flu, COVID-19, RSV, shingles, and more. We also perform medication therapy management. We look at all medications a patient is taking and make sure they work well together and there are no interactions.

Meds to Beds is a service we currently offer to three departments. We bring the medications to their rooms. It's really nice for patients to have their meds in hand before they leave the hospital. If they have questions or their family has questions, we can go over that with them. We can discuss interactions, side effects, and anything else to make them more comfortable taking the medication and hopefully improve adherence.

We look at the patient from start to finish. We really try to take care of all of their pharmacy needs and provide personalized care. If there's a barrier to medication adherence, like cost, we can try to save them some money by signing them up for a co-pay card through the manufacturer. If the medication is too expensive, we can explore alternative options within the same therapeutic class.

Ultimately, our goal is to make the patient comfortable and make the process of picking up and taking medication easy.

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