About Us
Ascension St. John Medical Center
Established in 1926, St. John Medical Center is Ascension St. John Health System’s flagship hospital. Located in Tulsa, OK., the full-service tertiary hospital provides a broad range of inpatient and outpatient services and is nationally and regionally recognized. St. John Medical Center is an important referral center for many forms of advanced medical services for the entire northeastern Oklahoma region. The medical center is a 539-bed facility offering advanced services in trauma; neurology and neurosurgery (including stroke care); cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery; kidney transplant; adult and neonatal intensive care; joint replacement; and many other areas.
St. John Medical Center is nationally recognized and has received various awards, including the following:
The transplant center at St. John Medical Center was the recipient of the only five-star program rating (highest possible) in Oklahoma by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, a national resource for organ transplantation analysis and data.
The Heyman Stroke Center at St. John Medical Center is the only Joint Commission-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center in eastern Oklahoma. In addition, the Heyman Stroke Center has received the Gold Plus Quality Award and Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite recognition from the American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines®-Stroke program for six consecutive years.
The St. John Trauma Center is verified as a Level II Trauma Center by the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons, the only ACS-verified trauma program in northeastern Oklahoma.
St. John Medical Center continues to be Oklahoma’s first and only certified member of MD Anderson Cancer Network®, a program of MD Anderson Cancer Center. The Oklahoma Cancer Specialist and Research Institute is a joint venture included in the collaboration.
Our Mission
Our Vision
Our Values
- Service of the poor: Generosity of spirit, especially for persons most in need
- Reverence: Respect and compassion for the dignity and diversity of life
- Integrity: Inspiring trust through personal leadership
- Wisdom: Integrating excellence and stewardship
- Creativity: Courageous innovation
- Dedication: Affirming the hope and joy of our ministry
Ascension Health
Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the United States, Ascension Health is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, particularly to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. In FY2021, Ascension provided $2.3 billion in care for impoverished persons and other community benefit programs. Ascension Health employs more than 150,000 associates and 40,000 aligned providers operating more than 2,600 sites of care - including 143 hospitals - in 19 states and the District of Columbia.
Pharmacy Committee Involvement
- Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee (P&T)
- Medication Management Committee
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee
- Investigational Review Board (IRB)
- Critical Care Committee
- Infection Prevention Advisory Committee
- Serious Safety Event Review Team
- Residency Advisory Committee
- Pharmacy Leadership Committee
- Comprehensive Stroke Committee
- Sentri7 Clinical Advisory Committee
- Accreditation & Regulatory Committee
- Ascension Pharmacy Leadership
Clinical Pharmacy Services
The following are clinical activities provided by the pharmacy department:
- Adverse drug event reporting
- Anticoagulation Stewardship
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Drug order verification, preparation, and distribution
- Drug information
- IV to PO conversion
- Multidisciplinary rounding
- Patient education / discharge counseling
- Parenteral nutrition support team
- Patient profile review for drug-drug & drug-food interactions, therapeutic duplications & modifications
- Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic dosing
- Renal dose adjustment
- Therapeutic heparin monitoring and dosing