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The 197-bed coastal hospital decided pharmacist coverage from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. was not, in fact, optional.
When Beaufort Memorial Hospital cut overnight in-house pharmacist coverage in 2023 in favor of a remote-pharmacy contract, the savings were real and the patient-safety metrics, according to the hospital’s CFO, were “not visibly different.”
The hospital reversed the decision in March. The reasons it gave Scrubswire are quieter than a single bad outcome: a buildup of small frictions that the leadership team eventually decided was not worth the line-item savings.
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