A place where medicine is prepared and dispensed. A retail drug store is one type of pharmacy. In a hospital, the pharmacy is a department where medicine is prepared to be administered to inpatients, and to be kept in areas where drugs are administered; for example, the emergency department.
Usually, a committee of the medical staff, or of the hospital, which concerns itself with drugs to be stocked by the hospital pharmacy (facility) and their correct use. It ordinarily has physician, pharmacist, and nurse members.