The Home Infusion Pharmacy

Home infusion is high-tech home health care often described as a “hospital without walls.” Infusion providers are skilled at managing a wide range of clinical services that once were provided only in an inpatient setting. A home infusion provider is a licensed pharmacy meeting the professional standards of practice and state board of pharmacy standards established for providers of sterile compounded drug products. Many providers have also undergone a process of voluntary accreditation with a national accrediting body.

Since the drug therapies managed by the home infusion pharmacy are designed to enter into a patient’s circulatory system or are injected into soft tissues or the spinal cord, medication safety, impeccable patient care processes, clinical monitoring, specialty expertise, and appropriate oversight facility design and operations are absolutely essential.