Gary Robb is a proven leader in pharmacy applications with more than 20 years of experience including the successful creation and design of a startup long term care pharmacy program and the startup of a hospital pharmacy program. His diverse background includes long term care pharmacy, home infusion pharmacy and acute care hospital pharmacy. Under Mr. Robb’s direction these pharmacy programs successfully achieved Joint Commission accreditation.
While serving as chief executive officer of a large long term care pharmacy provider, Mr. Robb successfully constructed and relocated the pharmacy to a new facility allowing for the continued growth of pharmacy services to nearly 7,000 alternate site and long term care facility residents.
Most recently Mr. Robb was the director of pharmacy for acute care hospitals for Ministry Health Care, a 15-hospital system in Wisconsin, where he directed the pharmacy operations of two acute care and two critical access hospitals. Mr. Robb also served as the director of pharmacy for Ministry Health Care at Saint Clare’s Hospital in Weston, Wisconsin. In this position, he designed and successfully implemented the pharmacy for Saint Clare’s Hospital and the Diagnostic and Treatment Center of the Weston Regional Medical Center, which opened for the care of patients in October 2005. Saint Clare’s Hospital is Joint Commission accredited and is Wisconsin’s first all-digital hospital utilizing a completely paperless system, including computerized provider order entry, a complete electronic medical record, and electronic medication reconciliation, which supports its best practice model.
Mr. Robb is currently enrolled in a Master of Business Administration with emphasis in project management at Walden University with expected graduation in April of 2009. Mr. Robb was trained as a lean six sigma black belt while serving as the Regional Director of Pharmacy with Ministry Health. He
received his bachelor’s of science in pharmacy from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, and is licensed to practice pharmacy in Illinois and Wisconsin. His professional affiliations include The American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists and the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin.