title: Leading the next renovation: redesigning a pharmacy structural workspace.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To stimulate people to start researching how to take advantage of a pharmacy redesign opportunity before they are put in the situation of carrying out the redesign.
  
  
  METHODS
  Medium-sized Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lebanon, PA, from 2007 to 2009.
  
  
  METHODS
  The pharmacy service at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lebanon, PA, encompasses all aspects of inpatient, outpatient, clinical, and managerial services. Medications are provided to more than 40,000 outpatients each year, and inpatient services covered nearly 62,000 bed-days of care in fiscal year 2008. We maintain direct clinical pharmacy input on all medical care areas, as well as in behavioral health and primary care. Our site also employs three postgraduate year 1 and two postgraduate year 2 pharmacy residents each year.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Successful pharmacy renovation is predicated upon proactive and effective leadership that starts long before the project begins.
authors.affiliation: Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1700 South Lincoln Ave., Lebanon, PA 17042, USA. paul.carnes@va.gov
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Carnes
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koons
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D006787:Hospitals, Veterans / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States