Behavioral Health Pharmacy at Alexian Pharmacy Services

About Us 

Getting the right medication to treat anxiety, depression or another emotional disorder is sometimes a difficult task. The Alexian Behavioral Health Pharmacy offers a unique and valued service for physicians, nurses and therapists that provides monitoring and management of medications used to treat psychological, emotional or behavioral health disorders.

Our behavioral health pharmacists assist with drug monitoring, pharmacotherapy recommendations and the design of drug treatment plans. Providers can consult with the pharmacist at any time during the treatment process to receive advice on psychiatric drugs, doses, side effects and outcomes.

Alexian Behavioral Health Pharmacy offers these unique services:

• Reviews and monitors the prescribed drugs of behavioral health patients
• Manages and monitors the medical records of behavioral health patients looking for errors or inconsistencies 
• Checks for patients' drug allergies and sensitivities to psychiatric drugs 
• Clarifies drug orders and prescriptions with psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists 
• Makes physicians aware of psychiatric drug side effects and interactions 
• Consults with psychiatrists and other physicians on which drugs to prescribe 
• Reviews all lab results of behavioral health patients for problems and alerts the appropriate personnel 
• Counsels and educates patients in the use of psychiatric drugs