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Getting to Know Who and What We Are! Our Most Important Asset for You - Our People
Quality Systems Department and Engineers Our Quality Systems Department works independently of the pharmacists and reports directly to the President and Chief Executive Officer. This department is tasked to work with the pharmacists to "engineer" policy and procedures to assure the facility, equipment and personnel meet the demanding standards set forth by senior management. Currently, we have over 200 released and active policy and procedure documents. Our Quality Systems Engineers (QSE)
are the "watchdogs" of the compounding pharmacy. All of our QSE staff are
engineers with bioscience or Quality Systems background who work independently to assure the
Quality Systems created by the pharmacists, technicians, and QSE engineers,
are working properly. Our QSE staff is also in charge of facility wide training and keeps
statistical records to assure only the best products are created in our
compounding pharmacy. Our pharmacy technicians make it possible to serve a large number of physicians and patients by reducing the turn-around time in filling prescriptions. Our pharmacy technicians undergo rigorous training in quality systems procedures and compounding. Our Customer Care Representatives assure your questions and orders are handled quickly. Our Customer Care people have the product knowledge and training to be able to interact with physicians, medical staff and patients on a daily basis. Additional training is given in computer information technology and customer service to assure that information flows freely from our organization to yours. PCAB Accreditation
McGuff Compounding Pharmacy Services, Inc. has earned the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board’s new Seal of Accreditation for meeting the compounding pharmacy profession’s highest quality and safety standards. The PCAB™ Seal of Accreditation is a new system of standards created by the leading experts in the compounding pharmacy field today. Our accreditation status as a PCAB Accredited™ compounding pharmacy lets you know that McGuff Compounding Pharmacy Services, Inc. is dedicated to protecting our patients by practicing safe, high-quality compounding. Compounding medications is an integral part of the practice of pharmacy – yet many people may not even be aware of it. Compounded medications are prescriptions that are written by a physician, veterinarian or other legally authorized prescriber and prepared for an individual patient by a specially trained pharmacist, for situations such as: Many pharmacies practice a small degree of compounding, while others specialize in the centuries-old practice. With the estimated 30 million to 40 million prescriptions that are compounded each year, there has been a need for an enhanced, profession-wide system of standards by which each compounding pharmacy can test its quality processes. While compounding pharmacy is regulated by the state, PCAB Accreditation is an even more comprehensive way to ensure a compounding pharmacy has undergone the profession’s most rigorous review and inspection measures. To earn the designation “PCAB Accredited™ compounding pharmacy,” we completed an extensive application and submission process that was reviewed by the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board. Our compounding policies and procedures were then reviewed by professionals. Next, we opened our doors for an extensive on-site inspection led by compounding experts. Only when these stringent evaluations were completed did PCAB™ officially grant us the PCAB™ Seal of Accreditation. We are honored to be among the first in the nation to earn this new accreditation, as it sets us apart from other compounding pharmacies. It confirms our commitment to providing safe, personalized solutions that meet the medical needs of our community.
McGuff Compounding Pharmacy, ISO 9001:2000 Certified The International Standards Organization (ISO) has developed an extensive series of standards for quality management systems. These standards provide the framework for companies to meet critical quality standards. People that deal with ISO certified companies know that a tough, independent quality assurance organization has inspected and approved their internal quality management systems. McGuff CPS Pharmacists, Quality Systems Engineers, Pharmacy Technicians and Senior Management wMcGuff Compounding Pharmacy, accredited by PCAB (Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board) McGuff CPS has elected to become PCAB accredited in order to provide you, the customer, an additional level of assurance that we promote and maintain our principles, policies and procedures, and standards for the public’s interest. In addition PCAB accreditation insures that we apply our principles, policies and standards to improve the quality and safety of pharmacy compounding provided to the general public. PCAB accreditation is voluntary and requires that our principles, policies and procedures meet PCAB standards. Not only must our policies and procedure be reviewed and accredited, but our facility and staff must undergo a vigorous on-site inspection and successfully pass that inspection. or achieved ISO certification as ISO 9001:2000.  McGuff Compounding Pharmacy, accredited by PCAB (Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board) McGuff CPS has elected to become PCAB accredited in order to provide you, the customer, an additional level of assurance that we promote and maintain our principles, policies and procedures, and standards for the public’s interest. In addition PCAB accreditation insures that we apply our principles, policies and standards to improve the quality and safety of pharmacy compounding provided to the general public. PCAB accreditation is voluntary and requires that our principles, policies and procedures meet PCAB standards. Not only must our policies and procedure be reviewed and accredited, but our facility and staff must undergo a vigorous on-site inspection and successfully pass that inspection. Modern Equipment - the Backbone of any Compounding Pharmacy It is of critical importance that a compounding pharmacy has the laboratory equipment required to produce the high quality products demanded by our customers. Of equal importance, is the ability of the pharmacist to maintain the equipment and have the equipment calibrated to national standards on a routine basis. Our quality systems department is currently tracking 111 pieces of equipment for calibration purposes. The McGuff Compounding Pharmacy not only has the equipment but also maintains the equipment utilizing the periodic inspection and calibration services of independent test labs. As mentioned, McGuff CPS has had its quality management systems audited independently by Orion Registrars, Inc. and has been certified as meeting the International ISO 9001:2000 requirements. We use the International Standards Organization as an additional independent inspection team to periodically audit our quality systems. This assures you that we maintain our equipment to the highest-level possible. Our Facility Meets or Exceeds the U.S.P. Guidelines for Compounding Pharmacy Designed from the ground up as a
compounding pharmacy, the McGuff Compounding Pharmacy Services facility is
located in Santa Ana, California. This facility was designed and built in
1999 to meet the new United States Pharmacopoeia XXV (U.S.P.) Standards for
Compounding Pharmacies. Additionally, the facility meets the stringent
requirements of the Food and Drug Administration’s, Current Good
Manufacturing Practices for the manufacture of sterile pharmaceutical
injections. McGuff CPS has an inner core of two class 100 laminar flow hoods, located within class 10,000 clean rooms (for sterile filling) with independent air handlers. These are supported by multiple gowning anterooms and by class 100,000 compounding and production areas. Each compounding area has independent air handling as well to assure there is no airborne cross contamination from one room to the next. This core is encompassed by administration offices, raw material inventory, and shipping facilities. We monitor the air pressure in eleven separate areas to keep clean air flowing from the clean inner core to the class 100,000 outer core to the rest of the facility. Raw material storage, compounding operations, filling operations and final product storage are monitored for temperature and humidity. Daily, weekly and quarterly cleaning protocols assure a very clean facility. As you can tell, we are quite proud of our people, and our compounding facility. You have an open invitation to come and see us for yourself. We would be honored to show you what we take such pride in. Price With all of the attention we pay to staff training, along with our substantial investment in our facility, equipment and maintenance, one would think that the McGuff Compounding Pharmacy could not possibly be price competitive. Well… please do not tell the competition, but paying attention to the details actually saves time, energy and raw materials. Do it right the first time and you will never have to look back or do it again. We live by these words and as a result, we have become extremely cost effective. Quality patient care should be affordable; we strive to make it so! |
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Naturally, a compounding pharmacy
relies heavily on the competency of the pharmacists who have a number of
responsibilities to the patients and physicians whom they serve. Our
pharmacists, are committed to life-long learning
and continuing education. A major advantage of compounded prescriptions is
that they provide treatments that are new, and not commercially
available. Our pharmacists are willing, and well prepared to provide
physicians and
patients with the best possible compounded medication and consultation. 
