ISPE Names 2019 Facility of the Year Awards Overall Winner
ISPE has announced Kantonsapotheke Zürich as the 2019 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) Overall Winner at the 2019 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Kantonsapotheke Zürich (KAZ) was awarded the Operational Excellence Award Category for its new compounding pharmacy for Canton Zürich Hospitals—a leap forward for hospital pharmacy compounding operations. The project demonstrates a transformational step in hospital compounding operations and establishes a new norm for future facilities in this important step of patient therapy.
The KAZ project replaced and integrated two outdated hospital pharmacies that had been unable to continue serving the progressive needs of the community and were occupying valuable and desirable space in the medical facility. The facility is highly flexible, adaptable and expandable to easily and quickly accommodate new functions, especially the rapidly emerging field of personalized medicine.
KAZ excels financially, technically, and operationally aiming to improve patient health by outlining crucial steps towards advancing pharmaceutical science and production especially regarding patient therapies. The project features training that will support the next generation of modern pharmaceutical professionals to incorporate GMP knowledge into systems and procedures daily.
Learn More information on Kantonsapotheke Zürich’s award-winning compounding pharmacy and the FOYA program.
About the ISPE Facility of the Year Awards Program
Established in 2004, the Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) recognizes state-of-the-art projects utilizing new, innovative technologies to improve the quality of products, reduce the cost of producing high-quality medicines, and demonstrate advances in project delivery. The FOYA program provides a platform for the pharmaceutical science and manufacturing industry to showcase its accomplishments in facility design, construction, and operations, while sharing the development of new applications of technology and cutting-edge approaches.