University of Washington Medicine
Department of Pharmacy Services
Core Purpose
To improve the health of our patients by providing optimal medication therapy.
Envision our Future
Continuously improve the medication-use process to achieve optimal patient safety, health related outcomes and efficiency.
Core Values
- Safety: The state of being safe; freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss. The quality of averting or not causing injury, danger, or loss.
- Innovation: Both radical and incremental changes in thinking, in things, in processes or in services
- Quality: The achievement and maintenance of the optimal balance of efficacy, safety, satisfaction, cost, variation. The IOM says that quality healthcare should be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely efficient and equitable.
- Integrity: Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty