The Ohio State University Medical Center is located on a campus of more than 3,500 acres. The Medical Center consists of University Hospitals, The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, University Hospitals East, and The Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital. There are approximately 800 total licensed inpatient beds, 30,100 inpatient admissions, and 289,670 outpatient visits annually. The Medical Center serves as a laboratory for research and for education of students in medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and the allied medical professions. More than 6000 employees, as well as 1200 staff physicians, and 500 residents are involved in the varied programs of the Medical Center.

The Department of Pharmacy is comprised of over 150 employees including pharmacy administrators, clinical specialists, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, secretarial/clerical personnel, and pharmacy residents. Comprehensive pharmacy services are provided through a central pharmacy. The Department also contains one IV admixture area, one surgical intensive care satellite, and an operating room satellite. Automation within the department includes PYXIS® Medstation Rx, and McKesson MedCarousel® in addition to hospital-wide computerized prescriber order entry. Outpatient oncology services are provided by

four outpatient oncology pharmacies - one located at the James, one located at University Hospitals East, and two based in the community. The Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital houses all cardiology services in one building. The Ross has one satellite, as well as ambulatory pharmacy services.

Clinical services are coordinated on a geographic basis with specialty services offered in areas such as nutritional support, psychiatry, rehabilitation, bone marrow transplant, nephrology, infectious disease, neonatology, women's health, cardiology, internal medicine, hematology/oncology, surgery, pain management/palliative care and critical care.

The Medical Center is a member of University Hospital Consortium. The Pharmacy Department purchases and dispenses more than $60,000,000 worth of pharmaceutical products and IV solutions annually.

A nuclear pharmacy services the Nuclear Medicine Department and procures, controls, and dispenses radio-pharmaceuticals for diagnostic and therapeutic indications, as well as teaching pharmacists, pharmacy students and medical staff.