Pharmedium Mission Statement

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PharMEDium Healthcare according to the company’s website[1] is a “leader in customized pharmacy sterile compounding for hospital intravenous and epidural therapies”. The company supplies hospitals and pharmacies with sterile, pre-mixed specialty medications (known as admixture compounding). PharMEDium entry on wikimapia[2] states that it “provides labelling, testing, and quality services, as well as customized drug admixtures and serves more than 1,800 hospitals across the US through its regional pharmacy compounding centres”. PharMEDium mission statement is “to be the preeminent provider of choice for pharmacy outsourced sterile intravenous admixture compounding services, supporting the triad of care that exists between patients, clinicians,

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