Home Medication MAR Action

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Wed, 10/15/2025 - 09:24
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Ashley Pierson
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Home Medication MAR Action

Hello!

Our pediatric institution repeatedly has issues where patient home meds that are stored in the hospital pharmacy are not given at discharge. This has resulted in the need to ship them home (extra cost) and is a patient, caregiver, and staff dissatisfier. We have heard of other organizations using an order in the MAR to provide a reminder for the staff discharging the patient but not sure how accurate this is. If you have something in place where you work, could you share how it is setup (we are with EPIC) or any other type of EPIC build that addresses home meds?

Thanks!

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