Hosted by the ASHP Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners Advisory Group on Small and Rural Hospitals, today's episode focuses about the impact that COVID-19 had on a critical-access hospital’s pharmacy operations and the important role of critical-access pharmacists in caring for patients with COVID-19 in this setting. Dr. Dantonio will discuss lessons learned and how the department is preparing for the second wave of COVID-19.
SPEAKERS
Scott Dantonio is the Director of Pharmacy at St. James Parish Hospital for nine years. Dr. Dantonio currently serve on the ASHP SAG for small and rural hospitals. Dr. Dantonio is a current board member and past president of LSHP. He married to a PACU nurse and they have three children.
Vicki Basalyga, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCPPS, is the Director for the Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists. In this role Vicki serves as an information resource and provides guidance to ASHP members regarding science and scientific developments affecting pharmacy practice in health systems. She serves as secretary to the Section executive committee and coordinates activities to accomplish the objectives established by the Section. Additionally, Vicki has assumed the position of Council Secretary for the ASHP's Council on Therapeutics.
Vicki received her Doctor of Pharmacy from Duquesne University and completed an ASHP accredited PGY1 at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Vicki is also a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist and a Board Certified Pediatric Pharmacotherapy Specialist.
Prior to her current position at ASHP, Vicki practiced as critical care pharmacist in both the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Other activities Vicki performed included drafting policies and procedures, co-chairing the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, creating and drafting order sets for CPOE conversion and precepting residents and students.