Successfully directing a hospital pharmacy in today’s health care landscape can be treacherous given the tumultuous seas of the pandemic and the often-looming specter of a rogue wave—any number of potential crises related to staffing shortages, product shortages, and other breaks from standard practices. While there is no silver bullet for ending the pandemic, substantial relief can be gained through the engagement with, and reliance upon vendor and service partners. In the hospital pharmacy, the vendor/client relationship is co-dependent; each relying on the other for support and improvement. This indeed should be a two-way street. Given the substantial demands on health care practitioners, vendors are doing more than ever to provide ballast against being capsized.

With the 2022 PP&P Resource Guide close at hand, you can remain abreast of the latest tools, technologies, and services available to assist in both chaotic, and the rarer peaceful times. This year’s guide—our 16th annual—provides easy access to over 220 product and service providers, and with more entering the marketplace at a rapid rate, it can be difficult to keep track of the best sources for the products you need, all in one place. PP&P’s Resource Guide can help simplify that process.

Given the numerous products and services available to health-system pharmacy, finding the right fit for a specific operation can be daunting. Therefore, we continue to build and refine our own repository of information for your use through this Resource Guide, and its online companion: 2finditnow.com This online pharmacy resource is larger and more robust than ever, delivering instant access to our full repository, and just a few clicks will connect you to the vendor or consultant of your choice. We invite you to reach out and let us know if there are additional products or services you would like to see included in FindIt.

At PP&P we remain devoted to supporting hospital pharmacy leaders as well. We thank you for your resiliency. If there are ways we can enrich this support, please reach out and let us know.

All the best in the New Year,

R. Mitchell Halvorsen

Publisher