Our Convenient Retail Pharmacy in Lexington, KY

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.