About Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital is a community, 319-bed acute care facility that provides a wide array of services including a renowned obstetrics and maternity program with a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, comprehensive cardiac services, complete surgical services, and a busy Emergency Department. Germantown is a suburb of Memphis, TN, located approximately 30 minutes east of downtown Memphis.
The hospital features emergency services operated under the standards of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital as well. At Methodist Germantown, several of our specialty care programs have received national recognition. Our cardiology program holds American College of Cardiology Chest (ACC) Pain Center accreditations in electrophysiology and percutaneous coronary intervention. They also have been recognized as a Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Distinction Center and have received the HeartCARE Center National Distinction of Excellence from ACC.
Germantown is also a certified stroke center, being recently awarded the Stroke Gold Plus, Target Honor Roll Stroke Elite Plus by the American Heart Association. Other specialty programs receiving national recognition include our bariatric surgery and hip and knee replacements as a Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Distinction Center. Our bariatric surgery program is also a Cigna Center of Excellence and is accredited as a Comprehensive Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. The Women’s & Children’s Pavilion is the first LEED Certified Hospital in Tennessee & earned Leadership in Energy Efficient Design Gold Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, which encourages green sustainable design.
Pharmacy at Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
The Pharmacy Team at Methodist Germantown is one of the hospital’s most valuable resources. Our clinical pharmacists are approachable, responsive, and extraordinarily competent. They make my life easier every single day, and more importantly, they enrich and improve every patient’s care.” – Elizabeth Gilless, MD Internal Medicine
The Pharmacy Department at Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital consists of 82 associates: including 26 clinical pharmacists, 12 clinical specialists, and 35 pharmacy technicians. The pharmacy practice model integrates centralized and decentralized services to evaluate medication orders, perform profile review and home medication reconciliation, assure prompt turn-around of medications and ensure the most effective medication therapy for every patient. Clinical specialists and clinical pharmacists serve as resource personnel in the areas of internal medicine, critical care, cardiology, transitions of care, nutrition support, oncology, neonatal intensive care, anticoagulation, surgical care, and emergency medicine .
Recently the pharmacy department has gained an expanded scope of practice within the Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, and Internal Medicine realm. These pharmacists are responsible for clinical activities, including consulting for medication therapy management and education, working with private physicians, and rounding with our hospitalists and ICU teams for their unit population. Expanded scope consists of electrolyte management, glycemic control, bedside support, fluid management among other activities. Our pharmacists also educate pharmacy students from the University of Tennessee and Union University, pharmacy residents, staff & other health professionals.