Bassett Clinical Pharmacology Service Coordinator Wins National Award

Cooperstown, NY – Dr. Kelly Rudd, a Clinical Pharmacology Service Coordinator and Anticoagulation Clinical Specialist at Bassett Medical Center’s Anticoagulation Clinic, has been awarded the PSPC 5.0 Life-Saving Patient Safety Award.

This national recognition comes from the Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative, a program to improve the quality of health care across the country by integrating evidence-based clinical pharmacy services into the care and management of high-risk, complex patients.

Dr. Rudd was recognized for establishing a sustainable system of best practices that detect, identify, and prevent adverse drug events. Among her many accomplishments has been working with information technology specialists to amend the hospital electronic health record system to improve the detection of dangerous drug interactions.

Rudd also worked with her counterparts at the national level, which led to a similar update of the national dispensing system.