Pharmacists play an ever-expanding role in your health care today. Your MU Health Care pharmacist helps you manage your chronic conditions, treat everyday illnesses and understand your medicines.
At MU Health Care pharmacies, we focus on increasing patient interaction, education and communication. We provide personalized service that helps you stick to your medicine schedule and properly manage your health.
You can ask your pharmacy about a variety of issues, including:
- How to improve your health condition
- Medication interactions
- Medication side effects
- Preventing illnesses
With 12 outpatient and specialty pharmacies, MU Health Care operates the largest network of pharmacies in mid-Missouri. We offer comprehensive pharmacy services, from filling your prescriptions to offering necessities like over-the-counter medicines, medical equipment and health care supplies.
Convenient pharmacy services
MU Health Care pharmacies also have a program for patients who are discharged from University Hospital, Children’s Hospital, Missouri Orthopaedic Institute or Capital Region Medical Center. This program provides free bedside delivery of medicines before you leave the hospital.
Through this convenient service, you can receive your prescriptions without setting foot outside your room, saving time and a stop on the way home. This program ensures you get your prescription filled and helps make your transition home easier.
If you want bedside delivery, one of your care team members will enroll you and send your prescriptions to the pharmacy. The pharmacy will fill your prescriptions, and the pharmacist will call your room to talk to you about the medicine, its potential side effects and answer your questions. The medicines will arrive at your room before you leave the hospital.
Our goal is to complete the entire prescription process within 90 minutes. Prescriptions can also be fast-tracked for any patients preferring to pick up medications themselves at the pharmacy.
In addition to bedside delivery, MU Health Care pharmacies offer 90-day prescription refills and a delivery option to make getting your medicines convenient.
Your pharmacy care team
Getting the right medicine to the right patient is only one aspect of a pharmacist’s job. MU Health Care hospital pharmacists are part of a care team that visits patients each day. Your pharmacist makes recommendations on what medication would best help you and your conditions. As part of the care team, your pharmacist helps teach you, other healthcare providers and physicians in training about medicines.