BayCare Receives Pharmacy Compounding Excellence Award from Premier Inc.

CLEARWATER, Fla., July 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- BayCare Health System, West Central Florida's leading, not-for-profit, community-based academic health care system, has received the 2025 Pharmacy Compounding Excellence Award from Premier, Inc., a leading technology-driven health care performance improvement company.  

The award acknowledges Premier members who exemplify high standards of compounding services to promote patient safety, respond to supply disruptions and demonstrate leadership in advancing pharmacy compounding practice.       

BayCare was recognized for excellence in compounding operations and staff deployment, safe handling of compounded products, and best practices in building and deploying compounding services (including use of technology) to meet regulatory requirements and the evolving needs of the health care industry. 

"What a great honor to accept the Premier Excellence in Compounding Award 2025 on behalf of BayCare Health System," said Mike Magee, BayCare's chief pharmacy officer. "This is a great opportunity to highlight my colleague Ken Jozefczyk's leadership and expertise in building one of four health system FDA-approved 503B compounding facilities in the United States. This center has helped us care for our Tampa Bay community by enabling us to avoid drug shortages and provide quality treatments to our patients."

The 2025 Pharmacy Compounding Excellence Award criteria include: 

• Leadership in compounding practice including use of technology, closed-loop workflow processes, highly competent personnel.
  
  
• Comprehensive services that improve efficiency, safeguard staff, providers and patients, and offer timely and accurate access to compounded preparations.
  
  
• Commitment to continuous education and training for staff to meet the highest standards for compounding practices.
  
  
• Innovative approaches to improving patient access to safe, effective, and high-quality compounded medications.
  
  
• Active involvement in Premier's Compounding Collaborative and/or 503B Advisory Group.
  
  
• Demonstrated proficiency in USP standards compliance.

BayCare was recognized with the 2025 Pharmacy Compounding Excellence Award during Premier's Breakthroughs Conference & Exhibition, held July 15–17, 2025. Premier is a leading technology-driven healthcare improvement company, providing solutions to two-thirds of all healthcare providers in the U.S. Playing a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, Premier unites providers, suppliers, payers and policymakers to make healthcare better with national scale, smarter with actionable intelligence and faster with novel technologies.

About BayCare

BayCare is a leading not-for-profit academic health care system that connects individuals and families to a wide range of services at 16 hospitals, including a children's hospital, and hundreds of other convenient locations throughout the Tampa Bay and central Florida regions. The system is West Central Florida's largest provider of behavioral health and pediatric services and its provider group, BayCare Medical Group, is one of the largest in the region. BayCare's diverse network of ambulatory services includes laboratories, imaging, surgical centers, BayCare Urgent Care locations, wellness centers and one of Florida's largest home care agencies, BayCare HomeCare. BayCare's mission is to improve the health of all it serves through community-owned, health care services that set the standard for high-quality, compassionate care. For more information, visit BayCare.org.

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