07/28/09:  "Architect Selected to Design New State-of-the-Art Pharmacy in California"

Bernstein & Associates, Architects is pleased to announce it has been selected to provide architectural design and equipment planning services for a new hospital pharmacy in Santa Barbara, CA.  The pharmacy will be designed to meet the latest best practices in pharmacy design, usp797, and the most current pharmacy automation equipment.  Bernstein & Associates, Architects currently has (5) state-of-the-art pharmacies in design or construction. 

The pharmacy project is a complete, new, state-of-the-art pharmacy, designed to conform to usp 797, California State Board of Pharmacy guidelines, and OSHPOD. The new pharmacy design includes the following pharmacy spaces: iso 7 anteroom, iso 7 hazardous compounding room, and iso 7 non-hazardous compounding room. Other pharmacy support spaces included in the pharmacy plan include: Receiving, Central Work Area, Narcotics, Refrigerator Space, Freezer Space, Storage Room, Toilets, Employee Pharmacy, Order Entry, Offices, Conference Room, Staff Lounge/Lockers, Investigative Drug Storage, Expired Drug Storage, Recalled Drug Storage, and IV Storage.

The pharmacy plan also includes the latest pharmacy automation equipment.

About Bernstein & Associates, Architects:

Bernstein & Associates, Architects has specialized in healthcare and lab design and construction since the firm's founding in 1990. This architecture firm is well-known for the planning, design and construction of pharmacies, including usp 797 compliant pharmacy design and construction. The firm's principal --- William N. Bernstein, AIA --- is a well known pharmacy architect who has written extensively on pharmacy design and construction including usp 797 compliant pharmacies. Mr. Bernstein's usp 797 articles can be found on the usp 797 website http://www.usp797.org/.

For more information about pharmacy design, pharmacy planning, pharmacy automation equipment, and pharmacy construction, including usp 797 compliant pharmacies, please contact:

William N. Bernstein, LEED®AP, AIA
Bernstein & Associates, Architects - PLLC
59 West 19th Street - 6A, NY, NY 10011
T: 212.463.8200
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