King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital has obtained international accreditation of hospital and health system pharmacy services from the American Society of Hospital Pharmacies as the first MOH hospital in the Kingdom and the first specialized hospital in the field of ophthalmology worldwide to obtain this accreditation. It is the largest association in the field of pharmacy in the United States.

This accreditation is considered a milestone in official and global recognition of hospital health systems efficiency. Also, it is considered to provide the best innovative and distinguished pharmaceutical services and practices of high and safe quality that are provided to patients in a sustainable manner in accordance with international safety and quality standards.

This achievement comes as a result of the efforts of the pharmacists working in pharmaceutical care services department at the hospital and their continuous aspiration for success and excellence.

The most prominent scope of criteria evaluated was in the following fields: management and leadership, pharmaceutical quality and safety, pharmaceutical policies and information, information department, clinical pharmacy services, pharmaceutical supply chains, and learning and development.

It is worth noting that the hospital was praised by ASHP for its excellence in pharmaceutical services in the following fields: providing continuing pharmaceutical medical learning to the medical staff, linking drug, audio and visual education to the patient with barcodes on the YouTube channel, developing the optimal use of topical antibiotics to treat eye infectious diseases, drug consultation service procedures during discharging of admitted patients. In addition, team spirit among health staff inside and outside the Pharmaceutical Care Services Department which reflects positively on the patients’ healthcare experience journey.

This achievement would not have been without Allah support and then support of hospital administration in particular, and the support of the government of King Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and HRH, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince for the health sector in general.